The possibility of an absolute architecture /

• Main Author: Aureli, Pier Vittorio (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2011
• Series: Writing architecture
• Subjects: Boullée, Etienne Louis, > 1728-1799; Piranesi- Giovanni Battista > 1720-1778; Palladio, Andrea, > 1508-1580; Ungers, Oswald Mathias, > 1926-2007; Αρχιτεκτονική; Αρχιτεκτονική > Φιλοσοφία; Πόλεις και κωμοπόλεις

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.