Beyond the City
10 Case Studies of Informal Cities
The book, through a reflection on the paradigm of the informal city and with averification in 'corpore vili' on 10 cities, presents a description of the role that collective space and social organization have in the construction of slums. In addition...
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India
Water Architecture
Structures erected on the Indian subcontinent to collect water express a search for spatiality that ventures beyond functional prerequisites to reveal a deep bond with water's spiritual value and rituals and practices related to water. Built from the...
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Sport Architecture
Design Construction Management of Sport Infrastructure
ISBN: PB: 9788862424264,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
June 2021
204 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 15 black&white illus.
204 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 15 black&white illus.
The history of civilisation and places conveys the importance of the role the culture of sport and a cultivated management of leisure play in the definition of the identity of peoples and communities. Elevating such realms to the status of cultural a...
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For a Novel Architecture
Cine-Roman 2000-2020
ISBN: PB: 9788862424790,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
December 2020
228 pp., 29,0x21,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
228 pp., 29,0x21,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
Told in the form of a cine-novel, this document compiles 20 years of Karim Nader architectural practice and research. Thirty-two projects from Karim Nader current studio and collaborations with Blankpage, Roula, Assaf, Danny Khoury and others are her...
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Atlas of Shame
A Collective Psychoanalytic Session for European Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788862423991,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
October 2020
184 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 136 black&white illus.
184 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 136 black&white illus.
"The Atlas of Shame" represents the world through the relationships between inhabited space, architecture and the feeling of shame. The book touches 40 countries through 8 themes and asks the reader to reflect and question, social, political, economi...
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Circular Architecture
A Design Ideology
ISBN: PB: 9788862424042,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
September 2020
100 pp., 16,5x12,0 cm, 1 illus.
100 pp., 16,5x12,0 cm, 1 illus.
Circular economy opens a new domain for architectural design, where architecture is focused on its production and disposable cycles, and the process is intended as the final outcome of the project. The circular paradigm is the product of the politica...
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Steel Like Straw
Louis I. Kahn and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
Designed by Louis I. Kahn in Ahmedabad between 1962 and 1974, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is considered to be one of his mature works and one of the most monumental buildings he conceived. Initially involved only as a consultant, this pr...
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Ljubljana: A City by Heart
Joze Plecnik's Legacy and Contemporary Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423571,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
June 2020
160 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
160 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
Nowadays there are many studies, researches and publications about Joze Plecnik's work, as well as there are many authors who contributed to the knowledge and divulgation of the great Slovenian master work.
The text in here, driven in this track, do...
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Dialogues on Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9788862423724,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
February 2020
352 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 84 colour and black&white illus.
352 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 84 colour and black&white illus.
In this book, a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture provide vivid dialogues – here taken to mean 'the talking of the soul with itself' – on how they perceive the interaction between idea, design and construction. Drawing on these pe...
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World of Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi is one of the acknowledged masters of architecture of the second half of the 20th century; the interest in his work has remained constant since the 1960s, as is demonstrated by the events organized recently for the 20th anniversary of his...
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