Architecture remains in crisis; its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement; Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities; an architecture that is connected -- attuned -- to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture; Pérez-Gómez explains; operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding.Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition; Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment; including the built environment; matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware; we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions.Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere; linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung -- attunement -- and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture -- the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience; with Piranesi; Ledoux; and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.
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