Pier Vittorio Aureli (born 1973 in Rome) is an architect and professor. He teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London and is Visiting Professor at Yale University. He is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (MIT Press, 2011). Hi is the cofonder, with Martino Tattara, of the architecture agency Dogma.
Edited and introduced by Claudia Mion.
Translated by Juliette Bouchendhomme (original title: Less is enough. On architecture and ascetism, Strelka Press, 2013).
Graphic design: Spassky Fischer and Lucas Lejeune.
