5 documents
Chronograms of Architecture
Base and Superstructure: A Vulgar Survey of Western Architecture
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Marson Korbi
Architecture Essay
Posted: February 23, 2023
Category
Architecture, Drawing, Marxism
Subjects
History, Precarity
Collectivity
Promised Land: Housing from Commodification to Cooperation
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Leonard Ma, Mariapaola Michelotto, Martino Tattara, and Tuomas Toivonen
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 12, 2019
Category
Architecture, Land & territory
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate, Privatization, Community, Family
Conditions
Platforms: Architecture and the Use of the Ground
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 31, 2019
Category
Architecture, Performance
Subjects
Archeology, Rituals & Celebrations, Public Space, Choreography
Architecture and Representation
Life, Abstracted: Notes on the Floor Plan
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 18, 2017
Category
Architecture, Drawing
Subjects
Representation, Abstraction, Rituals & Celebrations
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Intangible and Concrete: Notes on Architecture and Abstraction
Pier Vittorio Aureli
How to reproduce reality within thinking? How to build a set of categories that allow one to comprehend and represent complex social conditions? These were the questions that Marx asked himself when facing the task of describing the reality of capitalistic modes of production. He noted that when abstract things such as money rule the world and define all social relationships, it is hard to separate the abstract from the real, the tangible from the intangible, the concrete from the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Architecture, Urbanism, Marxism , Labor & Work
Subjects
Abstraction, Use Value & Exchange Value, Mathematics