The possibility of an absolute architecture
By: Pier Vittorio Aureli
Series: Writing architecture
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780262515795
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Towards the archipelago : defining the political and the formal in architecture; title: The geo-politics of the ideal villa : Andrea Palladio and the project of an anti-ideal city; title: Instauratio urbis : Piranesi's Campo Marzio vs. Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma; title: Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis; title: The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.