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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design
This handbook offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world.
Visiting the Art Museum
Visiting the Art Museum: A Journey Toward Participation is a book about the visitor experience. It is written as a companion for visitors to and inside the art museum. The volume engages readers in transforming a common experience, the museum visit, into a sophisticated epistemological inquiry. The study of the visitor experience through an epistemological approach consists of the untangling of the academic disciplines that study and inform each step of this experience: urban studies, architecture, design, art history, art education, and nonprofit management. This journey follows a transformative bottom-up trajectory from experiential to epistemological, and, finally, reveals itself as empowering. The book unfolds as an edited volume, with chapters by different authors who are enthusiastic scholars in each discipline and addresses undergraduate students as citizens, master’s students as professionals, and scholars as teachers and researchers. Each reader will discover a kaleidoscopic world made of ideas, values, and possibilities for participation.
Luigi Moretti
Luigi Moretti is the first English-language monograph on the Italian architect and will introduce his writings to the English-speaking world.
From Within. Between Interior Architecture and Design
What is the actual difference between architectural and interior design? To answer the question, this book looks into the actions of interior disciplines, to understand what they do, not only what they are. In doing so, it studies them through intersection, to identify the essential principles that characterise this kind of design. From typology to topology, from context to palimpsest, from space to place, the result is a story – particularly focused on the Italian tradition – of the ideas and projects that defined a particular design sensibility that knows no limits of context or scale.
Les Intérieurs aujourd'hui
What makes an interior? Designed and projected by architects, interior architects, designers, visual artists, etc., interiors are lived, practiced, read and spoken about from a critical and transdisciplinary perspective.
Joe Colombo
In his brief but brilliant career, Joe Colombo produced a series of innovations which made him one of Italy's most influential product designers. This book explores his far-reaching visions of the future through the study of some of his most important projects.
Dooroom
La città è un insieme di case su case e la casa è una sommatoria di stanze immaginarie. La stanza è il frutto dell’immaginazione poetica, il luogo sacro dove ha inizio la vita, un universo dove micro e macro si confondono nel tentativo di coinvolgere spiritualmente l’essere umano ed esaltarne l’essenza. O almeno lo era fino ieri perchè nel presente tutto sembra diverso e le stanze che abitiamo si sono lentamente trasformate in trappole inospitali, diventando spazi incapaci di accogliere la vita. Così, il neologismo Dooroom nasce per descrivere quel luogo privato non più casa né stanza per far luce sulle trasformazioni della casa e cercare di rimettere i suoi spazi in gioco, immaginando un posto nuovo, dove poter vivere dando ascolto ai desideri dell’individuo contemporaneo.
The Long Awaited Moment
This book describes the activities and political development of industrial workers in the Porta Romana area of Milan during the 1940s. The main focus of discussion is the extent of working class allegiance to the Italian Communist Party, which the author argues was generally more apparent than real. Through the use of unpublished archive material and oral sources, the author argues that many workers possessed a more radical consciousness than that of Communist leaders: the desire for The Long Awaited Moment of an insurrectionary seizure of power. Although this current of working class thought is acknowledged as having existed during the Resistance period of 1943-45, up until now its existence has been denied as regards the immediate postwar years.
Animal House
A zoologist might classify Italian design objects in various ways, distinguishing between species that are capable of flight (the Vespa "Wasp" scooter, the Heron lamp), of living aqueous lives (the Dolphin armchair, the jellyfish-like Medusa lamp), and of existing on terra firma (the Grillo "Cricket" telephone, the mouse-sized Topolino automobile). Alternately, one could catalog these all-but-inanimate objects in terms of the fictional creatures they evoke (the Moby Dick chair, Bruno Munari's Meo Romeo cat). This zoophilic trend in Italian design is neither an accidental nor an occasional element, nor need it be seen as some beastial obsession. On the contrary, it is a complex symbolic mechanism that repopulates domestic interiors with a little bit of the animal world that has been chased from our homes and neighborhoods. The presence of these experimental designs in an otherwise animal-free home helps it come to life as a virtual zoo, thus helping us to remember always: it's a zoo out there.
