Pier Vittorio Aureli. Lecture "Less is Enough"

“Less is more” goes the modernist dictum. But is it? In an age when we are endlessly urged to do “more with less”, can we still romanticise the pretensions of minimalism? Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life - the monk’s cell - becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong.
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and theorist. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association 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).
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The lecture took place at Strelka in 2013.