THE PROJECT OF AUTONOMYPolitics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Autonomia was an Italian new social movement of the mid-to late-1970s that combined several single-issue activist groups into one movement. In The Project of Autonomy, architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli traces the influence of autonomia on architectural thinking. Aureli examines how post-1968 political events and a rethinking of Marxist theory by intellectuals like Mario Tronti influenced a variety of that era’s architectural projects and writings.

2008 / 120 pp / 24 color & 19 b/w ill. / 978-1-56898-794-1 / hc / $24.95