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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Rust Remix
Architecture: Pittsburgh versus Detroit
Projects with different levels of intervention are producing changes in two of America's Rust-Belt cities; the steel city of Pittsburgh and the iconic motor city of Detroit. Architecture is determining new spaces, uses and forms, mainly by engaging t...
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Joyful House
Investigation on Marcio Kogan – studio mk27
There is no violence in the architecture of Studio mk27. There is no gravity in their domestic spaces. The projects are a concentration of boundless optimism, compositional serenity and achieved balance. Any type of brandished intellectualism has bee...
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Learning Landscapes
The Universidad de Piura Lecture Building, in Peru, surpasses the banal condition the program presupposes: that of a mere repetition of lecture rooms. The articulation of this group of buildings within the building is, rather, a complex architectural...
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Codes of the Temporary
Manifesto of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9788862422772,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
April 2018
112 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
112 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book opens many questions. Can the architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged place of our attention? And, can we with the e...
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Open Air Rooms
These timeless architectures stand at the rarely studied intersection between art, architecture and "the border".
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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
December 2017
188 pp., 22,0x17,1 cm, illustrations throughout
188 pp., 22,0x17,1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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Concrete Lines
The Model as a Way to See
ISBN: PB: 9788862422284,
Prestel Publishing,
Lettera Ventidue,
September 2017
72 pp., 22,0x22,0 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
72 pp., 22,0x22,0 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a way of working on reality in which the rigorousness of his process manifests itself first in the model. Through a long and laborious procedure, overlooked things are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to...
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Explorations in the Middle-Class City
The book looks at the residential buildings erected in Turin for the middle classes in the decades after World War II: a period marked by a remarkable urban growth in which a signi cant part of newly produced housing was aimed at social groups lookin...
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