Architecture and abstraction

Abstract

"A history of the relationship between modern architecture and abstraction"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Rationalization of Building Form -- Who is Afraid of Form? Notes on Formalism, Rationalism, Constructivism -- Experience and Poverty: Abstraction and Architecture from Dom-Ino to Datacenters.