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"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 |
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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. |