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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Introduction: Architecture and Human Desire | |
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| Historical origins of er&obar;s and philia | |
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| Er&obar;s, Seduction, and the Poetic Image in Architecture: Form | |
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| Eros and Creation | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Primordial Eros | |
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| Eros as creative power in classical philosophy | |
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| Renaissance incorporations | |
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| Modern transformations | |
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| Orphic Eros in late modernity | |
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| Inspiration in contemporary praxis | |
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| Eros and Limits | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Eros, spacing, and joints | |
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| Erotic space and the origins of Western culture | |
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| Erotic architectural space in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili | |
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| Ch&obar;ra as erotic space | |
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| Renaissance incorporations | |
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| Modern transformations | |
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| Er&obar;s and time | |
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| Eros and the Poetic Image | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Origins | |
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| Marsilio Ficino and the poetic image in the Renaissance | |
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| The poetic image in Renaissance theory | |
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| Modern transformations | |
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| The poetic image in modernity | |
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| From Lequeu to Duchamp | |
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| Frederick Kiesler's endless architecture | |
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| Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum | |
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| The poetic image in the contemporary world | |
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| Interlude: Er&obar;s, Philia, and Agap&ebar; | |
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| Er&obar;s and recognition | |
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| Philia, ethics, and communion | |
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| Philia, er&obar;s, and agap&ebar; | |
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| Philia, Compassion, and the Ethical Dimension of Architecture: Program | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Philia, Ritual, and Decorum | |
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| Origins | |
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| From decorum to character | |
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| Architecture at the Limits of Language | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Language and architecture | |
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| Architecture as Language | |
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| The Language of Philia in Architectural Theory | |
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| Vitruvian theory | |
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| The sequel | |
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| A Tale of Two Brothers: Jean-Louis and Charles-Francois Viel | |
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| The poetic architecture of Jean-Louis Viel | |
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| The political architecture of Charles-Francois Viel | |
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| Interweavings | |
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| Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Architecture from within | |
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| Architecture as poetic writing | |
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| Architecture as critical poem | |
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| The Ethical Image in Architecture | |
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| Opening conversation | |
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| Hermeneutics and ethical intentions | |
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| On endless desire | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |