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By Pier Vittorio Aureli

ISBN-10: 0262515792

ISBN-13: 9780262515795

In The risk of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes sharpened formal realization in structure is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with town. Aureli makes use of the time period absolute no longer within the traditional experience of "pure," yet to indicate whatever that's resolutely itself after being separated from its different. within the pursuit of the opportunity of an absolute structure, the opposite is the gap of town, its huge association, and its govt. Politics is agonism via separation and disagreement; the very of architectural shape is to split and be separated. via its act of separation and being separated, structure finds instantaneously the essence of the town and the essence of itself as political shape: town because the composition of (separate) components. Aureli revisits the paintings of 4 architects whose tasks have been complex throughout the making of architectural shape yet whose crisis was once town at huge: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The paintings of those architects, Aureli argues, addressed the alterations of the trendy urban and its city implications during the elaboration of particular and strategic architectural varieties. Their initiatives for town don't take the shape of an total plan yet are expressed as an "archipelago" of site-specific interventions.

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