How Long to Read Architecture and Abstraction

How Long Does it Take to Read Architecture and Abstraction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.

How long is Architecture and Abstraction?

Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli is 315 pages long, and a total of 80,325 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Architecture and Abstraction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 18 minutes to read Architecture and Abstraction aloud.

What Reading Level is Architecture and Abstraction?

Architecture and Abstraction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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