Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949- author.

An alliterative lexicon of architectural memories : a compendious compendium / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Montreal : Rightangle International, [2024]
©2024

2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

A lexicon of selected architectural terms, supplemented by examples drawn from the author's memories, this compendious compendium offers new and exciting ways to engage with architecture, enriching the reader's experience of the built environment. Entries include traditional and modern architectural terminology, rendered with an intriguing, rhythmic play of alliteration and a display of philological origins, often enriched with sub-entries of first-person narratives, based on an auto-ethnographic practice with a post-secular framework. While organized in a standard alphabetical order, the contents reflect the author's life experience, his early years in Mexico, his travels and sojourns in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and Australia, and his life in Canada as an academic teaching the history of Western architectural theory and philosophy: a life with its inherent limitations and subjectivities, yielding definitions that are both particular and universal.-- Provided by publisher.

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Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-
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