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Naked Architecture
Naked Architecture Valerio Paolo Mosco An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure and methods with which contemporary constructions are realized. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the Postmodern period, in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind, has passed, architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as though wishing to show how it is made (and to render this spectacular). On the other hand, the rediscovery in recent years of plastic form has brought about a closer relationship between architects and engineers. In the wake of...
Giuseppe Terragni
- Monograph dedicated to one of Italy's most talented proponents of Rationalist architecture, Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943), with a focus on his experience during WWII - Edited by Giuseppe Terragni's great-grandson, president of the Archivio Terragni Giuseppe Terragni, an influential proponent of modernism in Italian architecture and design in the 1920s and 1930s, translated the visual vocabulary of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe into what became known as the Rationalist School of Architecture. This monograph covers his later years (he died in 1943), with a focus on the war and his devastating experience as a soldier. It includes some notable projects from the 1930s like the Casa del Fascio in Como, and the designs for an unrealised final project for a cathedral that he did in the days before his death. The book is illustrated with historical photographs and includes letters Terragni wrote from the front.
Steven Holl
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FRUGALITÀ in architettura
Quella frugale è un’architettura rappresentativa nel senso che oltre a se stessa mette in mostra una condotta etica e dei riti ad essa connessi: mette in mostra uno stile di vita. Senza comprendere lo stile di vita frugale non si comprendono le sue forme, sempre in bilico tra l’estetico e l’etico. Tutte le espressioni della frugalità implicano il concetto che le risorse sono limitate: proprio nello stile di vita a risorse limitate la frugalità esprime le sue ragioni esistenziali, sociali e politiche. Pochi anni or sono, nel periodo delle archistar che concepivano l’architettura come un gioco a risorse illimitate, l’architettura frugale sembrava scomparsa. Dopo la crisi del 2007 e con l’affermarsi del paradigma ecologico la situazione è radicalmente cambiata e l’architettura frugale si è imposta sulla scena sebbene in forme diverse da quel passato a cui per altro ancora appartiene.
KITSCH in architettura
Il kitsch è un’invenzione della modernità, di quella borghesia che nel diciannovesimo secolo impone una nuova arte, romantica e sentimentale, come tale sempre a rischio di cattivo gusto. All’arte pompier e all’eclettismo si opporrà l’avanguardia che con l’astrattismo troverà lo strumento per combattere il kitsch. Ma il kitsch con l’avvento della società di massa si imporrà sempre di più, impossessandosi spudoratamente delle scoperte dell’avanguardia. Oggi due kitsch convivono insieme: quello ormai diventato classico e un kitsch nuovo, a bassa intensità, insinuante e pervasivo, capace di travestirsi persino da buon gusto.
Andrea Vallicelli: a History of Designs
The luxurious, lightning-fast yachts of Andrea Vallicelli, the unparalleled master of boat design For 40 years, Andrea Vallicelli and his studio have conceived some of the most daring yacht designs in the history of the craft. His creations have been so influential that a history of Vallicelli is a history of the boating world in that same 40-year span. This substantial tome boasts more than 300 photographs and drawings that showcase the work of the designer for the storied Azzurra team. Here, Vallicelli shows us not only the boats of his studio, and how they were conceived and made, but in general demonstrates how yacht design has always been based on a constant intermingling between innovation and intuition of the past and how, precisely for this reason, it remains one of design's greatest expressions.
Journey to Italy
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Atlas of Contemporary Public Space
This text examines an important selection of the most important and experimental contemporary designs for public spaces throughout the world and offers a critical reflection of the theme of 'unvolumetric architecture' proposed by the designers and theoreticians featured in this book.
The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture
For centuries, across nations, dialogue between the domestic and the foreign has affected and transformed architecture. Today these dialogues have become highly intensified. The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture examines how these exchanges manifest themselves in contemporary architecture, in terms of its aesthetic potential and its practice, which, in turn, are impacted by broad economic, cultural and political issues. This book traces how diverse cultural encounters inevitably modify conventional categories, standards and codes of architecture, such as domestic identity, its political and economic representations and the negotiations with what is deemed foreign. Theoretical reflections by distinguished scholars are accompanied by interviews with some of the most influential architects practicing today, as well as stunning visual presentations by professional photographers.
