The possibility of an absolute architecture /
Pier Vittorio Aureli.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- xiv, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- 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 Boull�ee's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.