Architecture And Abstraction Pier Vittorio Aureli Mit Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

A Landmark Study Of Abstraction In Architectural History Theory And Practice That Challenges Our Assumptions About The Meaning Abstract Forms This Theoretical Architecture—The First Its Kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli Argues For Reconsideration Meanings Sources Although Architects Have Typically Interpreted Formal Terms—The Purposeful Reduction Complexities Design To Essentials—Aureli Shows Instead Arises From Material Conditions Building Production Lively Informed By Walter Benjamin Karl Marx Alfred Sohn-Rethel Other Social Theorists Book Presents Architecture Not As An Aesthetic Tendency But Movement Modern Divisions Labor Consequent Asymmetries These Were Anticipated Antiquity Which Established Distinction Between Manual Intellectual Placed Former Service Latter Further Abstractions Arose Geometry Used Measuring Territories Became Intermediary Land Money Eventually Produced Logic Grid Own Time Serves Capitalism Embraces Premise All Things Can Be Exchanged—Even Experience Itself Is Commodity Resist Turn Seeks Critique Begins Scaling Philosophical Heights Standing At Ground Level Σελίδες: 328 Διαστάσεις: 13 7X13 7Cm