<p>Vittorio Gregotti€”the architect of Barcelona€™s Olympic Stadium, Milan€™s Arcimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon€™s Centro Cultural de Belém, among many other noted constructions€”is not only a designer of international repute but an acclaimed theorist and critic. Architecture, Means and Ends is his practical and imaginative reflection on the role of the technical aspects of architectural design, both as part of the larger process of innovation and in relation to the mythic opposition between vision and construction.   Interweaving the seemingly irreconcilable concerns of aesthetics, meaning, and construction,  Architecture, Means and Ends reflects Gregotti€™s overarching claim that buildings always have a symbolic, cultural content. In this book, he argues that by m</p>

Architecture, Means and Ends

Politics & Social Sciences

Gregotti, Vittorio

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

<p>Inside Architecture is a concise, insightful examination of the role the modernist project has played in late twentieth-century building, as well as an attempt to reconcile the dilemmas and shortcomings of modern orthodoxy with a renewed vision of modernism.Since the 1950s, Vittorio Gregotti has constructed a critical position that is probably without peer among practicing architects. Through his experiments with the neo- avant-gardes in 1963, his editorship of Casabella from 1982 to 1995, and his teaching, practice, and writing, Gregotti's voice has influenced almost every recent architectural debate. Inside Architecture, his first major work to be translated into English, balances a series of architectual themes concerning the theoretical debate surrounding modernism and tradition with the more practical affairs of the architect. Gregotti first identifies the elements of mass culture and public institutions that have led to the deterioration of natural and man-made environments. He then investigates eight issues - precision, technique, monumentality, modification, atopia, simplicity, procedure, and image - that influence the activities of contemporary architects. Gregotti is particularly suspicious of the deconstructivist argument and its heavy reliance on literary models. And he provides an incisive critique of the recent interest in modernist aesthetics, warning against reviving the forms of an old movement without considering the cultural and social criteria that once gave it purpose and meaning. The Graham Foundation / M.I.T. Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse</p>

Inside Architecture

Arts & Photography

Architecture

MIT Press]

New Directions in Italian Architecture

G. Braziller

George Braziller

New Directions in Italian Architecture.

Le territoire de l'architecture ; suivi de Vingt-quatre projets et réalisations (Tendances 2) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

L'Equerre

Architettura, Tecnica, Finalita

GLF Editori Laterza

Armando Testa

Perhaps the most important artist in the history of Italian graphic design, Armando Testa has explored the most diverse languages of visual communication for over a half-century, inventing new ways of expressing ideas and designing enormously innovative works for television. Armando Testa documents Testa's activity from the beginning of his career to his last works, collecting many of his most important pieces: advertising posters, sketches, book illustrations and covers from the 40s and 50s; photographic work for advertising from the 70s; posters and trademarks created for social causes and cultural events during the 80s; and work done outside of the field of advertising and publicity, for Testa's own creative purposes, from the 80s right up to his death. This attractive and exciting new monograph also includes a detailed biography and bibliography as well as an "imography": a catalogue, with commentary, of every one of Testa's amazing images.

Verzotti, Giorgio

Testa, Armando

Testa, Gemma De Angelis

Graphic Design

Charta

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