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Author Aureli, Pier Vittorio.

Title The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  720.1 Aur/Poa  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Series Writing architecture series
Writing architecture.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture.
Cities and towns.
LC no. 2010030741
ISBN 9780262515795 paperback alkaline paper
0262515792 paperback alkaline paper