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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (Paperback)
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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (Paperback)
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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 separated from its
other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an absolute
architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive
organization, and its government. Politics is agonism through
separation and confrontation; the very condition of architectural
form is to separate and be separated. Through its act of separation
and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence of
the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as
the composition of (separate) parts. Aureli revisits the work of
four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of
architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea
Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Etienne Louis-Boullee, and
Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues,
addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban
implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic
architectural forms. Their projects for the city do not take the
form of an overall plan but are expressed as an "archipelago" of
site-specific interventions.
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