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Architecture and Abstraction
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the...
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A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture--the first of its kind--Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms--the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials--Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged--even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.
Author: Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780262545235
About the Author
Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office, Dogma. He is the author of The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press, 2011) and The Project of Autonomy, and the coauthor of Living and Working (MIT Press, 2022).
Author: Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780262545235
About the Author
Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office, Dogma. He is the author of The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press, 2011) and The Project of Autonomy, and the coauthor of Living and Working (MIT Press, 2022).
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