Architecture and abstraction /
"A history of the relationship between modern architecture and abstraction"--
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The MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
Publication Dates: | [2023] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Writing architecture. |
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Summary: |
"A history of the relationship between modern architecture and abstraction"-- |
Carrier Form: | xxv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780262545235 0262545233 |
Index Number: | NA2500 |
CLC: | TU-021 |
Call Number: | TU-021/A927 |
Contents: | Architecture, Abstraction and the Prehistory of the Project -- From Disegno to Design -- Appropriation, Subdivision, Abstraction: A Political History of the Urban Grid -- Without Architecture: The Townhouse, The Factory and the Abstraction of Building Form -- Formalism, Rationalism, Constructivism -- Experience and Poverty: Abstraction and Architecture from Dom-ino to Data Centers. |