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The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing architecturePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780262515795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262515792 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2540 .A97 2011
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.
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks 720.1 AUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010028198
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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.

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