The possibility of an absolute architecture
Aureli, Pier Vittorio.
The possibility of an absolute architecture [electronic resource] / Pier Vittorio Aureli. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps, plans. - 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 : Etienne-Louis Boullee's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780262295918 (electronic bk.)
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Electronic books.
NA2540 / .A97 2011
720.1
The possibility of an absolute architecture [electronic resource] / Pier Vittorio Aureli. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps, plans. - 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 : Etienne-Louis Boullee's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780262295918 (electronic bk.)
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Electronic books.
NA2540 / .A97 2011
720.1