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The possibility of an absolute architecture.
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ISBN: 9780262515795 0262515792 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT Press

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Aureli revisite le travail de quatre architectes dont les projets ont concerné la forme architecturale mais dont le souci était la ville dans son ensemble : Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, et Oswald Mathias Ungers. Leur travail, selon Aureli s'intéresse aux transformations de la ville moderne grâce à l'élaboration de formes architecturales spécifiques et stratégiques et non sous la forme d'un plan global.


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The city as a project
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ISBN: 9783944074061 3944074068 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin Ruby press

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The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is substantiated by eight thoroughly researched essays scrutinizing a fascinating line-up of urban conditions across more than two thousands years of history: from the political theology of the Islamic city to the political economy of Renaissance architecture; from the rise of public architecture in 17th-century France to the laissez-faire development of the contemporary Greek city; from the exemplary teachings of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand to the collaborative work of Hannes Meyer; and from the plan of the Mesoamerican metropolis to that of the Fordist factory floor. In challenging the split between theory and practice, The City as a Project reveals the powerful ways in which the city arises from the constant interaction between ideas and spatial conditions. With contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Fernando Donis, Hamed Khosravi, Amir Djalali, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, Christopher C. M. Lee, Francesco Marullo, Bernardina Borra, Platon Issaias


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Rome the centre(s) elsewhere : a Berlage Institue project
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ISBN: 9788857205229 8857205223 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano : New York : Skira ; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Pub.,


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Less is enough : on architecture and asceticism
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ISBN: 9780992914608 0992914604 Year: 2013 Publisher: Moscow : Strelka Press,

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"Less is more" goes the modernist dictum. But is it? In an age when we are endlessly urged to do "more with less", can we still romanticise the pretensions of minimalism? For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of "austerity chic" is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting the rise of asceticism in early Christianity and its institutionalisation with the medieval monasteries, Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life - the monk's cell - becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong. By late capitalism, asceticism has been utterly aestheticised. It manifests itself as monasteries inspired by Calvin Klein stores, in the monkish lifestyle of Steve Jobs and Apple's aura of restraint. Amid all the hypocrisy, it must still be possible to reprise the idea of "less" as a radical alternative, as the first step to living the life examined.


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The possibility of an absolute architecture
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ISBN: 0262294435 1283119277 9786613119278 0262295911 9780262295918 9780262296687 0262296683 9781283119276 9780262515795 0262515792 9780262294430 661311927X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,


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The project of autonomy : politics and architecture within and against capitalism
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ISBN: 9781616891008 1616891009 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Temple Hoyne Buell center for the study of American architecture,

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Pier Vittorio Aureli retrace l'histoire d"Autonomia " mouvement de gauche italien des années 1970 dont les membres avaient pour objectif de garder leur autonomie par rapport à l'état. Il montre comment les événements politiques d'après 1968 et le changement de vision sur le marxisme et le capitalisme par des intellectuels comme Mario Tronti influencèrent une variété de projets et d'écrits architecturaux, notamment de Manfredo Tafuri, Aldo Rossi, Raniero Panzieri, Mario Tronti, Massimo Cacciari, Archizoom, Ludwig Hilberseime.


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Architecture and Abstraction
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ISBN: 0262373688 026237367X 9780262373685 9780262373678 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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"A history of the relationship between modern architecture and abstraction"--


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Architecture and abstraction
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ISBN: 9780262545235 0262545233 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press

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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, Architecture and Abstraction presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.

Brussels, a manifesto : towards the capital of Europe
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ISBN: 9789056625528 9056625527 Year: 2007 Publisher: Rotterdam : Brussels : NAi Publishers ; A + Edition,

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The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome is the fiftieth birthday of the "European project." Here an international team of 16 architects and urban planners associated with the important Dutch architecture think-tank, the Berlage Institute, asks how the city of Brussels can do justice to its mission as the capital of the continent. What image does Brussels want to project as a capital city within the European Union and beyond? What are the indisputable qualities of the European presence in Brussels? How can Brussels consciously do justice to its European mission and be a true embodiment of the European political project?Brussels: A Manifesto is an exceptionally visionary project, presenting a poetic, engrossing and magical image of Europe's communal capital city. With contributions by prominent thinkers such as Mario Tronti, Elia Zenghelis, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Iwan Strauven, this volume presents a powerful standpoint that links architecture's representative role to the future of Europe.

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Ladders
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ISBN: 9781616894115 1616894113 Year: 2014 Publisher: Houston Rice School of Architecture

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Albert Pope's 1996 seminal book Ladders is now available in a second edition. Considered a classic in the field of urbanism and one of our most requested out of print titles, Pope's provocative study of five post-war American cities examines the forces--including demographic upheavals, market expansions, and technological developments--that precipitated a change from the open system of the pre-war urban grid to the fragmented and closed spaces of suburban cul-de-sacs, expressways, and office parks. Through an incisive series of diagrams and photographs, Pope reveals the concepts, theories, and rules that have guided their organizational evolution into post architectural spaces whose character is shaped more by the effects of immense urban spaces and infrastructure than built forms. A new preface by architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli situates the book in the context of contemporary urban thinking and makes a compelling argument for it's continued relevance as springboard for the investigation of our contemporary cities.

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