Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office, Dogma. He is the author of The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press, 2011) and The Project of Autonomy, and the coauthor of Living and Working (MIT Press, 2022).
Introduction viii
1 Architecture, Abstraction, and the Prehistory of the Project 1
2 From Disegno to Design 43
3 Appropriation, Subdivision, Abstraction: A Political History of the Urban
Grid 85
4 Without Architecture: The Townhouse, the Factory, and the Abstraction of
Building Form 125
5 Formalism, Rationalism, Constructivism 165
6 Experience and Poverty: Abstraction and Architecture from Dom-ino to Data
Centers 207
Acknowledgments 261
Notes 263
Index 283
