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Author Aureli, Pier Vittorio.

Title The possibility of an absolute architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Writing architecture series
Writing architecture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Architecture.
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Aureli, Pier Vittorio. Possibility of an absolute architecture. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262515795 (DLC) 2010030741 (OCoLC)649827295
ISBN 9780262295918 (electronic book)
0262295911 (electronic book)
1283119277
9781283119276
9780262515795
0262515792