具体描述
“Less is more” goes the modernist dictum. But is it? In an age when we are endlessly urged to do “more with less”, can we still romanticise the pretensions of minimalism? For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of “austerity chic” is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting the rise of asceticism in early Christianity and its institutionalisation with the medieval monasteries, Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life – the monk’s cell – becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong. By late capitalism, asceticism has been utterly aestheticised. It manifests itself as monasteries inspired by Calvin Klein stores, in the monkish lifestyle of Steve Jobs and Apple’s aura of restraint. Amid all the hypocrisy, it must still be possible to reprise the idea of “less” as a radical alternative, as the first step to living the life examined.
作者简介
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and theorist. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and is visiting professor at Yale University. He is the author of many essays and several books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008) and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011).
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A critic towards the contemporary world of design, the world largely relies on creativity, where the possibility of creating a new structure of life has been ironically uprooted. In the world ruled by capital, less is never more, less is less, and there is ...
评分In essence, it is a book that is less about how we design architecture, but about how we live. For me, the inspiring point is the interpretation of asceticism as everyday activities that train our body and mind instead of an ideology. It is precisely when w...
评分A critic towards the contemporary world of design, the world largely relies on creativity, where the possibility of creating a new structure of life has been ironically uprooted. In the world ruled by capital, less is never more, less is less, and there is ...
评分In essence, it is a book that is less about how we design architecture, but about how we live. For me, the inspiring point is the interpretation of asceticism as everyday activities that train our body and mind instead of an ideology. It is precisely when w...
评分A critic towards the contemporary world of design, the world largely relies on creativity, where the possibility of creating a new structure of life has been ironically uprooted. In the world ruled by capital, less is never more, less is less, and there is ...
用户评价
pv去年出的小册子，比较精彩，基本也可以算作他对自己实践的辩护。但是好像还是有点天真。。
评分http://thecityasaproject.org/2015/05/the-theology-of-tabula-rasa-walter-benjamin-and-architecture-in-the-age-of-precarity/
评分Revealing
评分通过对自身的关注，从日常琐事重新定义生活。写到乔布斯客厅与Co-op Zimmer的联系部分很有趣。本雅明说要腾出空间，乔布斯的产品使人们注意力的短缺，哈。
评分少不是多，少就是少。参考喵君的翻译http://www.douban.com/note/327832684/
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