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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, Étienne Louis-Boullée, 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.o, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, 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.o, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, 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.o, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, 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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The theoretical concern here is how successful and creative urban architecture interacts, confronts, and redefines cities while also distinguishing itself as absolute or separate and strategic manifestation of singular space. Aureli (capital cities research program, Berlage Inst., Rotterdam; The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism) is a proponent of vibrant buildings and "archipelago" spaces that both counterpoise and animate the organization and politics of city space. Most of this compact disquisition is made up of his scholarly analysis and interpretation of historical urban projects by Andrea Palladio in Renaissance Venice, Giovanni Piranesi in 1700s Rome, tienne-Louis Boullee in neoclassical Paris, and Oswald Mathias Ungers in postwar West Berlin. Visuals include historic maps, diagrams, elevations, and models. VERDICT Aureli is a philosophical, learned, and reliable guide to both architectural history and big-picture urbanism; this will be of particular interest to upper-division undergrads and grads studying those fields.-Russell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office Dogma, author of The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture and Architecture and Abstraction, and coauthor of Living and Working (all with the MIT Press).