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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture
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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…
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Architect — books by Pier Vittorio Aureli
Living and WorkingMIT Press, 2022
The Possibility of an Absolute ArchitectureMIT Press, 2011
The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against CapitalismPrinceton Architectural Press, 2008
Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism
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