Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli - ISBN: 9780262545235
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Architecture’s abstract forms hide power, labor, and capital’s unseen hand.

Architecture and Abstraction

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    328 pages

  • Release Date

    10 October 2023

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Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545235
ISBN-10:0262545233
Author:Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:328
Release Date:10 October 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm
Series:Writing Architecture
About The Author

Pier Vittorio Aureli

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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