HOMMAGE A PEREZ-GOMEZ
'THE ANAMORPHIC STAIN' - Architecture and the Perspective Hinge, by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997) - "The extreme depth of this impressive and scholarly work adds a thirteenth month to the existent twelve of phenomenon in architectural representation." (Steven Holl, Architect) - "This book demonstrates that representation is never a neutral tool or mere picture of a future building. Writing from inside the discipline of architecture, rather than from the more common extrapolations from the history of painting and philosophy, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier focus on the implications of the tool of perspective (and the hegemony of vision) for architectural representation. Their primary thesis is that tools of representation have a direct influence on the conceptual development of projects and generation of forms, and that there are alternatives to the reductive working methods of most contemporary practice." (MIT Press) - Paper, 536 pages, ISBN 0-262-66113-6 (Cloth, 0-262-16169-9) / Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (Cambridge: MA, MIT Press, 1983) - Paper (1985), 424 pages, ISBN 0-262-66055-5 (Cloth, ISBN 0-262-16091-9) / "Alberto Pérez-Gómez was born in Mexico City in 1949 and became a Canadian Citizen and a Quebec resident in 1987. He obtained his undergraduate degree in architecture and engineering in Mexico City, did postgraduate work at Cornell University, and was awarded a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. by the University of Essex in England. He has taught at universities in Mexico City, Houston, Syracuse, and Toronto, at the Architectural Association in London, and was Director of the Carleton University School of Architecture from 1983 to 1986. He has lectured extensively in North America and Europe." (McGill) / See also, Dwelling on Heidegger: Architecture as Mimetic Techno-Poiesis (BTU, Cottbus, 1998) ...
CHORA, Vol. 01-04 (1994-2004) - Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Stephen Parcell (eds.), Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, Vol. 01 (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994) - Paper, ISBN 0-773-51276-4 / Vol. 02 (1996) - Paper, 336 pages, ISBN 0-773-51407-4 / Vol. 03 (1998) - Paper, 416 pages, ISBN 0-773-51712-X (Cloth, ISBN 0-773-51711-1) / Vol. 04 (2004), Cloth, 360 pages, ISBN 0-773-52503-3 (Paper, ISBN 0-773-52504-1)
