Polyphilo
Subtitle: or The Dark Forest Revisited - An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 12, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780262161299
Subjects: Theory of architecture; Architecture / General; General; Italian (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Architecture
Description: Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is a completely original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Perez-Gomez retells the love story of the famous Renaissance novel/treatise Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms. The original work, long a cult book among architects, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high- tech environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory, and pornography.