TY  - GEN
AU  - Aureli, Pier Vittorio
TI  - Possibility of an absolute architecture
SN  - 9780262515795
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  -  
N1  - 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
ER  -