The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aureli, Pier Vittorio.

Series:

Writing architecture.

Writing architecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps, plans.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29443-5

1-283-11927-7

9786613119278

0-262-29591-1

OCLC:

923252322