The possibility of an absolute architecture
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Writing architecture series
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10476083 |
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 : βEtienne-Louis Boullβee's project for a metropolis
- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.