3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
THIS LECTURE IS PART OF THE SPRING 2024 ARCHITECTURE LECTURE + EVENT SERIES
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Professor Emeritus, McGill University, CA
February 22, 2024 | Workshop
9:30 - 10:30 am | ARCH 654
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BIOGRAPHY
Alberto Pérez-Gómez was born in Mexico City in 1949, where he studied architecture and practiced. In 1983 he became Director of Carleton University’s School of Architecture. From January 1987 until his retirement in 2020, he occupied the Bronfman Chair of Architectural History at McGill University, where he founded the History and Theory Master’s and Doctoral Programs. He has lectured extensively around the world and is the author of numerous articles and books. His Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, 1983) won the Hitchcock Award. Later books include Polyphilo (1992), Architectural Representation (1997), Built upon Love (2006), and more recently Timely Meditations (RightAngle, 2016), a two-volume collection of essays, and Attunement (MIT Press, 2016), examining the centrality of atmosphere in architecture through history, neurophenomenology and narrative language. Perez-Gomez was also co-editor of a seven-volume series of books entitled Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. He is currently working on an Alliterative Lexicon of Architectural Memories.