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. Publications Attunement: Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science (2016) Timely Meditations: Architectural Theories and Practices (Selected Essays on Architecture), vol.1 (2016) Timely Meditations: Architectural Philosophy and Hermeneutics (Selected Essays on Architecture), vol.2 (2016) Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (2006) Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge with Louise Pelletier (2003) Anamorphosis (1997) Polyphilo, or, The Dark Forest Revisited : an Erotic Epiphany of Architecture (1992) Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983) Lo Bello y lo Justo en Arquitectura (2015) Alberto Pérez-Gómez. De la Educación en Arquitectura (2014) El Sueño de Polyfilo. El Origen Erótico del Significado Arquitectónico (2012) Awards and recognitions Officer of the Order of Canada (2022) Profesor Honoris Causa, International Institute of Hermeneutics (2021) Award for Outstanding Achievement, Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (2021) Droga Architect in Residence Fellowship Sydney Australia (2017) David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching McGill University (2008) Canadian Personalities Exchange Programme Award Israel Association of Canadian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, (2007) Fellowship from the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the Pennsylvania State University (2007) Juan O’Gorman Medal (1999) For 25 years of distinguished service in Architectural Education, IPN, Mexico Alice Davies Hitchcock Book Award (1983) Granted by the Society of Architectural Historians for Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science as "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published in North America between Nov. 1, 1981 to Oct. 31, 1983."Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Architecture (1980) See also Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Marco Frascari Gregory Henriquez Joseph Rykwert Dalibor Vesely Nader El-Bizri David Leatherbarrow Robert Tavernor Louise Pelletier Lily Chi Marc J. Neveu Lisa Landrum Peter Olshavsky Jason Crow Architecture theory McGill University School of Architecture Stylianos Giamarelos (2015) Interdisciplinary Deflections: Histories of the Scientific Revolution in Alberto Pérez-Gómez's Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. Journal of Architectural Education Vol. 69, Iss. 1, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10464883.2015.987069 References External links McGill University faculty page History and Theory of Architecture homepage Hermeneutics as Architectural Discourse article Modern Architecture, Abstraction, and the Poetic Imagination 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Mexican emigrants to Canada 1949 births Living people Architectural historians Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni People from Mexico City Alumni of the