The possibility of an absolute architecture [electronic resource] / Pier Vittorio Aureli.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing architecturePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps, plansSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.1 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2540 .A97 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Towards the archipelago : defining the political and the formal in architecture -- The geo-politics of the ideal villa : Andrea Palladio and the project of an anti-ideal city -- Instauratio urbis : Piranesi's Campo Marzio vs. Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma -- Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Towards the archipelago : defining the political and the formal in architecture -- The geo-politics of the ideal villa : Andrea Palladio and the project of an anti-ideal city -- Instauratio urbis : Piranesi's Campo Marzio vs. Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma -- Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.

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