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Architecture And Abstraction

by Pier Vittorio Aureli

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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, Architecture and Abstraction 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.
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On Accident - Episodes In Architecture And Landscape

by Edward Eigen

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 Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.
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Alphabet And The Algorithm

by Mario Carpo

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 The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.
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Possibility Of An Absolute Architecture

by Pier Vittorio Aureli

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 Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.
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Histories Of The Immediate Present - Inventing Architectural Modernism

by Anthony Vidler

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 Examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. This book demonstrates the inevitable collusion between history and design that pervades modern architectural discourse.
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Fire And Memory - On Architecture And Energy

by Luis Fernandez-Galiano

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 Architecture and fire, construction and combustion, meet in this poetic treatise on energy in building.
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Differences - Topographies Of Contemporary Architecture

by Ignasi De Sola-Morales

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 Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales.
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Constructions

by John Rajchman

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 Attempting to theorize in a way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze, Rajchman embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, and perhaps even to suggest a new architecture.
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Architecture From The Outside - Essays On Virtual And Real Space

by Elizabeth Grosz

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 Essays at the intersection of philosophy and architecture explore how we understand and inhabit space.
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Architecture'S Desire - Reading The Late Avant-Garde

by K. Michael Hays

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 Theorizes an architectural ethos of extreme self-reflection and finality from a Lacanian perspective.
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Second Digital Turn - Design Beyond Intelligence

by Mario Carpo

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 The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
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Topology Of Everyday Constellations

by Georges Teyssot

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 In this work, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies.
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Public Intimacy - Architecture And The Visual Arts

by Giuliana Bruno

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 An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space.In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space—a screen of vital cultural memory—has come to shape our visual culture. Taking on the central topic of museum culture, Bruno leads the reader on a series of architectural promenades from modernity to our times. Through these "museum walks," she demonstrates how artistic collection has become a culture of recollection, and examines the public space of the pavilion as reinvented in the moving-image art installation of Turner Prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson. Investigating the intersection of science and art, Bruno looks at our cultural obsession with techniques of imaging and its effect on the privacy of bodies and space. She finds in the work of artist Rebecca Horn a notable combination of the artistic and the scientific that creates an architecture of public intimacy. Considering the role of architecture in contemporary art that refashions our "lived space"—and the work of contemporary artists including Rachel Whiteread, Mona Hatoum, and Guillermo Kuitca—Bruno argues that architecture is used to define the frame of memory, the border of public and private space, and the permeability of exterior and interior space. Architecture, Bruno contends, is not merely a matter of space, but an art of time.
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Noah'S Ark - Essays On Architecture

by Hubert Damisch

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 From Noah''s Ark to Diller + Scofidio''s "Blur" Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture''s origin and development.Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to "think architecture in a different key," as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides "an open series of structural models," Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. He leads the reader from Jean-François Blondel to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to Mies van der Rohe to Diller + Scofidio, with stops along the way at the Temple of Jerusalem, Vitruvius''s De Architectura, and the Louvre. In the title essay, Damisch moves easily from Diderot''s Encylopédie to Noah''s Ark (discussing the provisioning, access, floor plan) to the Pan American Building to Le Corbusier to Ground Zero. Noah''s Ark marks the origin of construction, and thus of architecture itself. Diderot''s Encylopédie entry on architecture followed his entry on Noah''s Ark; architecture could only find its way after the Flood.In these thirteen essays, written over a span of forty years, Damisch takes on other histories and theories of architecture to trace a unique trajectory of architectural structure and thought. The essays are, as Vidler says, "a set of exercises" in thinking about architecture.
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Paths To A Green World - The Political Economy Of The Global Environment

by Jennifer Clapp e Peter Dauvergne

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 A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.
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Formulations - Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

by Andrew Witt

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On Accident - Episodes In Architecture And Landscape

by Edward (Associate Professor Of Architecture And Landscape Architecture, Harvard University) Eigen

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 Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.
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Natural Resources As Capital

by Larry Karp

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The Second Digital Turn - Design Beyond Intelligence

by Mario (Professor, The Bartlett School Of Architecture) Carpo

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 The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
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Noah'S Ark - Essays On Architecture

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Oblique Drawing - A History Of Anti-Perspective

by Massimo Scolari

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Dimensions Of Creativity

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 Dimensions of Creativity brings together original articles that draw on a range of disciplines--from the history and sociology of science, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence--to ask how creative ideas arise, and whether creativity can be objectively defined and measured.
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Financial Structure And Economic Growth - A Cross-Country Comparison Of Banks, Markets, And Development

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 Assessment of the ties between financial structure and economic growth, based on data from a broad cross-section of countries.
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Project Of Crisis - Manfredo Tafuri And Contemporary Architecture

by Marco (Associate Professor Of History Of Contemporary Architecture, Politecnico Di Milano) Biraghi

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 An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary architecture.
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