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).

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• Introduction viii1 Architecture, Abstraction, and the Prehistory of the Project 12 From Disegno to Design 433 Appropriation, Subdivision, Abstraction: A Political History of the Urban Grid 854 Without Architecture: The Townhouse, the Factory, and the Abstraction of Building Form 1255 Formalism, Rationalism, Constructivism 1656 Experience and Poverty: Abstraction and Architecture from Dom-ino to Data Centers 207Acknowledgments 261Notes 263Index 283

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).

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• Introduction viii1 Architecture, Abstraction, and the Prehistory of the Project 12 From Disegno to Design 433 Appropriation, Subdivision, Abstraction: A Political History of the Urban Grid 854 Without Architecture: The Townhouse, the Factory, and the Abstraction of Building Form 1255 Formalism, Rationalism, Constructivism 1656 Experience and Poverty: Abstraction and Architecture from Dom-ino to Data Centers 207Acknowledgments 261Notes 263Index 283