Introduction -- Towards the archipelago : defining the political and the formal in architecture -- The geo-politics of the ideal villa : Andrea Palladio and the project of an anti-ideal city -- Instauratio urbis : Piranesi's Campo Marzio vs. Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma -- Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.
