The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli
One of the influential History & Architectural Professor of our time, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, whom also wear the hat of being the one of the editor for Chora, with his wisdom through his writing, have guide and assist me the growth of my profession. Some of his book might aid and or shape the future of your profession.
Chora of McGill University, School of Architecture, is a journal that carries a tradition of excellence in open, interdisciplinary research into architecture.
http://www.mcgill.ca/architecture-theory/chora/
Some of his notable masterpieces
Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Polyphilo or The Dark Forest Revisited - An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture
Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge Built upon Love
Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
Dr. Alberto Pérez-Gómez was educated in Mexico and Great Britain, and has taught in Europe and North America, at the Architectural Association in London, and at universities in Mexico, Houston, Syracuse, Toronto and Ottawa. He is now the Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University, where he has also been in charge of the History and Theory of Architecture graduate program since 1987. He has been the director of the School of Architecture at Carleton University and of the Institut de recherche en histoire de l'architecture in Montreal. Dr Pérez-Gómez is the author of Polyphilo or The Dark Forest Revisited (MIT Press, 1992), an erotic narrative/theory of architecture based on a kindred text from late 15th century Venice. His first book, Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, 1983), won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for architectural history in 1984. His most recent book, co-authored with Louise Pelletier and entitled Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, was published by the MIT Press in 1997. Dr Pérez-Gómez is co-editor of CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.
http://www.ethicsinplace.org/pages/speakers/speakerpages/perezgomez.html
From one of his article from Chora 4 on The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli
http://books.google.com/books?id=OW_wAPxDzMMC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=The+Glass+Architecture+of+Fra+Luca+Pacioli++Alberto+P%C3%A9rez-G%C3%B3mez+&source=web&ots=qOPdK7lXW0&sig=4P7c1ZY-0HgTQtVSiP8CWurfUdM&hl=en#PPR9,M1
