TY - BOOK ID - 147794768 TI - Frugality : abstraction and responsibility AU - Fernández Per, Aurora AU - Mozas, Javier PY - 2024 SN - 9788409620234 PB - Vitoria-Gasteiz : a+t architecture, DB - UniCat KW - Thriftiness KW - Voluntary simplicity movement KW - Architecture KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Sens de l'économie KW - Simplicité volontaire KW - Écologie urbaine KW - Environmental aspects KW - Aspect de l'environnement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147794768 AB - Frugality means less material, less energy, less expense, greater respect for the environment, greater constructive sincerity, and greater social honesty. Frugality is not imposed by social or cultural movements, or even by political transformations. It is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction and deprivation that conditions the way of acting. Frugality is dismantling the iconic and symbolic character of architecture. It imbues it with a basic rationality, a new classicism without style, standardised technology, and programmatic flexibility. The first issue of this new series is entitled Abstraction and Responsibility, the essential features of this frugal architecture whose sole aim is to become a structure-shelter of life. ER -