Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Details

Nationality

Mexican-Canadian

Notes

Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture, McGill University. Author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983, Hitchcock Award). Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983) was published by MIT Press and won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians — the notes correctly abbreviate this as 'Hitchcock Award'. The original Spanish-language version preceded the MIT Press edition.

Connections

• proposed The perspective hinge
• collaborated with Louise Pelletier
• authored Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge

Referenced by

• Robin Evans influenced
• Manfredo Tafuri critiqued
• Joseph Rykwert mentored

Sources

1. Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier. Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge. MIT Press, 1997.
2. Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. MIT Press, 1983.
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4 of 18