Architecture and Abstraction
Discussion between Pier Vittorio Aureli and Jana Ndiaye Berankova
Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
What role does abstraction play in architectural thinking, design, and building ? What does it mean to be an architectural worker today ? How does the division of labor shape architecture ? How to articulate a truly critical theoretical thinking on architecture in our present times of crisis ? In Architecture and Abstraction (MIT Press, 2023), Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction in architecture as determined by the material conditions of the buildings themselves, considering abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that mirrors modern divisions of labor and society. Pier Vittorio Aureli and Jana Ndiaye Berankova will address the possibility of articulating a Marxist-oriented criticism of the canon of Western theory of architecture and the role of the project, the language, and the plan in architectural theory, criticism, and practice.
Un évènement co-organisé par l’Institute for Ideas & Imagination de la Columbia University et l’École Spéciale d’Architecture.
Toutes les informations et inscription gratuite sur la page de l’évènement.
