Dogma: 11 Projects

by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara, Gabriele Mastrigli (Contributor)

Over the past ten years the Brussels-based architectural studio Dogma, founded and led by Martino Tattara and Pier Vittorio Aureli, has focused almost exclusively on large-scale projects and citywide interventions.

These projects venture beyond mere physical size to expand conceptual frameworks and radically rethink what it is to produce an architectural project, in the process challenging the very discipline itself. This book, and its accompanying exhibition at the AA School of Architecture, explores 11 works developed since 2002 that collectively present the Dogma ethos: to see the urban project as a comprehensive domain in which architectural form, the political and the city are reclaimed as one ‘field’. Mobilising and reinvigorating both drawing and text – the quintessential tools of architecture – these 11 projects range from speculative and theoretical proposals to investigations that question today’s modes of housing. Complementing the projects themselves are essays by Brett Steele and Gabriele Mastrigli.

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Pier Vittorio Aureli studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and later at the Berlage Institute in Rottedam. Aureli currently teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London and is visiting professor at Yale University. He is the author of many essays and several books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008) and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011).