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        Architecture and Abstraction

        Architecture and Abstraction

        Architecture and Abstraction

        by Pier Vittorio Aureli

        ISBN: 9780262545235

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 7, 2023

        A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
        Architecture’s Theory

        Architecture's Theory

        Architecture's Theory

        by Catherine Ingraham

        ISBN: 9780262544979

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 18, 2023

        A collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts.
        Formulations

        Formulations

        Formulations

        Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

        by Andrew Witt

        ISBN: 9780262543002

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 11, 2022

        An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.
        On Accident

        On Accident

        On Accident

        Episodes in Architecture and Landscape

        by Edward Eigen

        Foreword by Reinhold Martin

        ISBN: 9780262534840

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2018

        Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.
        The Second Digital Turn

        The Second Digital Turn

        The Second Digital Turn

        Design Beyond Intelligence

        by Mario Carpo

        ISBN: 9780262534024

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 20, 2017

        The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
        Histories of the Immediate Present

        Histories of the Immediate Present

        Histories of the Immediate Present

        Inventing Architectural Modernism

        by Anthony Vidler

        Foreword by Peter Eisenman

        ISBN: 9780262720519

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 18, 2008

        How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.
        The Alphabet and the Algorithm

        The Alphabet and the Algorithm

        The Alphabet and the Algorithm

        by Mario Carpo

        ISBN: 9780262515801

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 4, 2011

        The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.
        A Topology of Everyday Constellations

        A Topology of Everyday Constellations

        A Topology of Everyday Constellations

        by Georges Teyssot

        ISBN: 9780262518321

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 22, 2013

        The threshold as both boundary and bridge: investigations of spaces, public and private, local and global.
        The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

        The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

        The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

        by Pier Vittorio Aureli

        ISBN: 9780262515795

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 11, 2011

        Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.
        Noah’s Ark

        Noah's Ark

        Noah's Ark

        Essays on Architecture

        by Hubert Damisch

        Edited by Anthony Vidler

        Introduction by Anthony Vidler

        Translated by Julie Rose

        ISBN: 9780262528580

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 12, 2016

        From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's “Blur” Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.
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