The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, (Untitled 16)

Pier Vittorio Aureli was born in Rome in 1973. He graduated in Architecture at the IUAV in Venice and earned his PhD at the TU Delft in 2005. Aureli’s main research focus is the relationship between architectural form, political theory and urban history. He teaches at the Architectural Association in London and he is Visiting Professor at Yale school of architecture. He has taught at Columbia University and Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. 

Together with Martino Tattara he is the co-founder of Dogma. Since its foundation Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture. In 2006, Dogma has won the 1st Iakov Chernikhov Prize for the best emerging architectural practice and in 2013, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Dogma. 11 Projects’ the Architectural Association in London has published a monograph on the work of the office. Part of Dogma archive of drawings and collages is in the collection of FRAC Centre in Orleans.