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Milan Architecture Guide 1945-2015
Milan, since the period after World War II, has developed its own specific interpretation of modern architecture: a Milanese path to architectural Modernity. In model suburban developments like QT8 (a proving ground for the best solutions formulated by international architectural culture in the 1920s and 1930s), but also in original buildings in the center, like the Torre Velasca and the Pirelli skyscraper, Milan has become a true outdoor museum of modern architecture. The names of the leading figures of this period are Gio Ponti, Piero Bottoni, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Moretti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vico Magistretti; as well as Vittorio Gregotti,...
Milano. L’architettura dal 1945 a oggi
Milano, dal secondo dopoguerra in avanti, ha elaborato una propria specifica interpretazione dell’architettura moderna: una via milanese alla modernità architettonica. In originali edifici del centro come la Torre Velasca e il Grattacielo Pirelli, al pari che in quartieri-modello periferici come il QT8 o il Complesso ‘Monte Amiata’ al Quartiere Gallaratese, Milano si è venuta così costituendo come un vero e proprio museo a cielo aperto dell’architettura moderna. I nomi dei maggiori protagonisti di queste stagioni sono Gio Ponti, Piero Bottoni, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Moretti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vico Magistretti; e ancora, Vittorio G...
Guida all'architettura di Milano 1954-2015
Dopo il successo della prima edizione, la Guida alla Architettura di Milano, ritorna in una nuova edizione che include alcuni edifici costruiti in occasione di EXPO ed esempi recenti di architetture milanesi. La guida seleziona edifici e complessi architettonici (dagli anni Cinquanta ad oggi) presenti sia nel comune di Milano che nel suo hinterland, per permettere di affrontare nella loro complessità una serie di questioni centrali (abitazione, scuola, sistema bibliotecario, centri direzionali e polifunzionali, recupero delle aree industriali dismesse, ecosostenibilità, opere infrastrutturali, impianti sportivi e fieristici) con cui, nel corso degli ultimi sessant'anni, si sono confrontati...
Re-Framing Identities
From 1970–1990, architecture experienced a revision as part of the post-modern movement. The critical attitude to the functionalistic Moderne style and the influence of semiotics and philosophical trends, such as phenomenology, on architectural theory led to an increased interest in its history, expression, perception, and context. In addition, architectural heritage and the care of architectural monuments gained importance. This development also increasingly challenged the ideologically based division between East and West. Instead of emphasizing the differences, the search was for a joint cultural heritage. The contributions in this volume question terms such as "Moderne" and "post-modern", and show how architecture could again represent local, regional, and national identity.
Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe
This edited collection studies the role of students as a critical mass within their urban context and society through examples of student revolts from the foundation period of universities in the Middle Ages until today, covering the whole European continent. A dominant theme is the large degree of continuity visible in student revolts across space and time, especially concerning the (rebellious) attitudes of and criticisms directed towards students.
MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern
MCM - Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time. The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.
Milan Architectural Guide
The architecture of Milan from the postwar period until today in 100 selected buildings.
Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture
Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the architect’s role in the design and production processes of architecture. Moreover, critical architectural theories, including those of Breton, Heidegger and Benjamin, which explored the concepts of technology, modernism, labour and capital and how technology informed the cultural, along with later...
Against Architecture
First published in 2008, (as Contro l’architettura), Against Architecture has been translated into French and Greek, with editions forthcoming in Polish and Portuguese. The book is a passionate and erudite charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world, the “archistars.” According to Franco La Cecla, architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars use the cityscape to build their brand, putting their stamp on the built environment with no regard for the public good. More than a diatribe against the trade for which he trained, Franco La Cecla issues a call to rethink urban space, to take our cities back from what he calls Casino Capitalism, whic...
