Possibility of an absolute architecture
Aureli, Pier Vittorio
Possibility of an absolute architecture - Cambridge MIT Press 2011 - xiv,251p. - Writing architecture .
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1.Toward The Archipelago 1
Defining the Political and the Formal in Architecture
2.The Geopolitics of the Ideal Villa 47
Andrea Palladio and the Project of an Anti-Ideal City
3.Instauratio Urbis 85
Piranesis Campo Marzio versus Nollis Pianta di Roma
4.Architecture as a state of Exception 141
Etienne-Louis Boullee's Project for a Metropolis
5.The City Within The City 177
Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA
and the Project of the city as Archipelago
Notes 229
Index 247
9780262515795
720.1 / AUR
Possibility of an absolute architecture - Cambridge MIT Press 2011 - xiv,251p. - Writing architecture .
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1.Toward The Archipelago 1
Defining the Political and the Formal in Architecture
2.The Geopolitics of the Ideal Villa 47
Andrea Palladio and the Project of an Anti-Ideal City
3.Instauratio Urbis 85
Piranesis Campo Marzio versus Nollis Pianta di Roma
4.Architecture as a state of Exception 141
Etienne-Louis Boullee's Project for a Metropolis
5.The City Within The City 177
Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA
and the Project of the city as Archipelago
Notes 229
Index 247
9780262515795
720.1 / AUR