NOTES ON <i>AN ABSOLUTE ARCHITECTURE</i> OF PIER VITTORIO AURELI

Abstract

The review deals with the term "absolute architecture" of Pier Vittorio Aureli, detecting its references from Gianugo Polesello, Aldo Rossi and Manfredo Tafuri. In the book published in 2011, Aureli associates "an absolute architecture" with solidness and resoluteness of its geometrical form as island not only within but also against sea of urbanization as the expansive logic of economy. Indeed, Polesello, who was Aureli's teacher in IUAV, remarked "L'architettura ab-soluta" (Ab-solute Architecture) as architecture "separated from" or "free", implying the urban development as its political moment, on which Rossi and Tafuri had put importance.