The possibility of an absolute architecture /
Aureli, Pier Vittorio.
The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. - Writing architecture series . - Writing architecture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262515795 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262515792 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010030741
NA2540 / .A97 2011
720.1
The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. - Writing architecture series . - Writing architecture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262515795 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262515792 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010030741
NA2540 / .A97 2011
720.1