In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of "pure," but to denote som[...]

Over the past century, models for architecture evaluation such modernism and postmodernism have been modified by supermodernism and retromodernism, and more recently by sustainability. "OASE" 90 investigates the expectation behind existing value models in architecture.[...]