The possibility of an absolute architecture

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aureli, Pier Vittorio
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Series:Writing architecture.
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Table of 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.