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Let us hope that from time to time the individual will give a little humanity to the masses, who one day will repay him with compound interest. — Walter BENJAMIN, “Experience and Poverty,” 1933.

Abstraction addresses the process of removal in order to reach the essential datum of things. In a design world increasingly dominated by organic and redundant forms, abstraction is likely to be one of the most unpopular concepts in the field of architectural theory.

lecture: Pier Vittorio AURELI, “A Brief History of Abstraction in Architecture: Design and the Administration of Life.”
Wednesday, 10/16
1.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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Architect Pier Vittorio AURELI speaks on Dogma: 11 Projects, the recently published book (and accompanying exhibition at the AA School of Architecture) exploring 11 works developed since 2002 by his Brussels-based architectural studio.

lecture: Pier Vittorio AURELI, “Dogma: 11 Projects.”
Tuesday, 07/16
6.00 p.m. / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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The lecture, coinciding with the Exhibition currently in the AA Gallery, will present projects which illustrate Dogma’s main concerns. Since 2002 Dogma has focused almost exclusively on urban projects. If the modern city was shaped by streets and roads, our project seeks a new form of urbanism made of walls. If one were to summarise life in a city and life in a building in one gesture, it would have to be that of passing through walls. Every moment of our existence is a continuous movement through space defined by walls.

Pier Vittorio AURELI, “Projects”
Thursday, 03/07
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architecture Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES