Category Archives: Pier Vittorio Aureli

[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form (video)

Recordings of a recent multidisciplinary symposium on urbanization at Harvard GSD, including amongst others papers by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Colin McFarlane and Kees Christiaanse. There is an interesting exchange between Aureli and Neil Brenner at the end of panel 1, … Continue reading

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Back to the blog

It has been almost six months since the last post on this blog  —  I had not realized that it had reached over 1,000 followers during this period, thank you all for reading! Besides the typically frantic teaching and management … Continue reading

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Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials

I had a great time during the seminar last week at the AA, where I presented my recent research on planning’s role in the destruction of working-class centralities through several historical illustrations from Germany and the US. This is a … Continue reading

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Dispossession and territory at the AA School of Architecture

Next week I will be at the AA School of Architecture to discuss the work of students of Diploma 14, the unit led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. I was astonished to discover the subject they chose … Continue reading

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The politics of architecture | Mouffe, Aureli, Whiting et al

Following up on the previous post, you can find below an interesting set of presentations about the politics of architecture by Chantal Mouffe, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Reinhold Martin, Ines Weizman and Sarah Whiting, and the ensuing discussion at the Architectural … Continue reading

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Aureli, Tafuri, proyectos históricos

Interesante vídeo con una ponencia breve de Pier Vittorio Aureli en la Universidad de Michigan. Aureli esboza aquí su iniciativa de revisión del proyecto histórico de Manfredo Tafuri, una tarea ya presente en su conocido The Project of Autonomy, que … Continue reading

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Leyendo… The Project of Autonomy, de Pier Vittorio Aureli

Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism, New York: Princeton University Press, 2008. El de Pier Vittorio Aureli es un título inesperado en mi lista de lecturas de este año. Pero lo descubrí hace … Continue reading

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