The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Пьер Витторио Аурели

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of "pure," but to denote something that is resolutely itself after being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515792
• ISBN13: 9780262515795
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher