Pier Vittorio Aureli - Labour, City, Architecture

The lecture will focus on the relationships between the transformations of labour and the evolution of architectural form. If Hannah Arendt thought of labour as the basic sphere of the human condition, to be complemented by work and political action, today labour has become a totality of the human condition and thus contains not only all aspects of human life but also the possibility of the political. In light of this condition, Pier Vittorio Aureli will revisit canonical architectures and their relationship with the transformation and different organization of labour. He will put forward his position by presenting a project that addresses the contemporary city.

Pier Vittorio Aureli
is an architect and educator. He teaches at the Berlage Institute and Architectural Association. Aureli is the author of numerous books, including: The Possibility of Absolute Architecture (2011) and The Project of Autonomy (2008). He and Martino Tattara co-founded Dogma, an architectural collective focussed on the project of the city.