Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Peter Eisenman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years in the making, "Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques" documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs -- employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual. It is through this idea of the textual that Eisenman begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture. Eisenman's methodology is wholly removed from traditional approaches -- social, historical, aesthetic, functional. Instead, the various articulations and openings on the facades constitute a set of marks, notations that provide the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, for example, each of the four sequential design schemes records the previous state, encoding the process of transformation in the final building. In the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio it is instead the process of decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri. In the end, it is the dual protagonists -- the architect and the author -- who together establish a new theoretical and analytical framework.
Download or read book Surface Symbol written by Thomas L. Schumacher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Daniel Mancini and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Valerio Paolo Mosco and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - 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.
Download or read book The Terragni Atlas written by Attilio Alberto Terragni and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libeskind's authoritative and original essay and Rosselli's outstanding photography attest to the importance of this pioneer of modernist architecture's work and his continued influence on modern architecture.
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni Transformations Decompositions Critiques written by Peter Eisenman and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Eisenman's eagerly awaited magnum opus - forty years in the making documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio and the Casa Giuliani - Frigerio, both in Como, Italy. This far -reaching study illustrated with finely delineated two - color diagrams, archival drawings from Terragni's studio, and period photographs - employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual readings of both buildings. Eisenman describes the articulations and openings on the facades; these notations provide the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, the four sequential design schemes each record the previous state, encoding the process of transformation. In the Casa Giuliani - Frigerio, it is instead the process of decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni, on the commissioning, design, and construction of the Casa del Fascio, and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri, the renowned Italian architectural historian and theorist.
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Enzo Pifferi and published by Enzo Pifferi editore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtual Terragni written by Mirko Galli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally architectural models were static creations but now through CAAD, models can be created which are dynamic and easily manipulated. This book shows how the electronic medium can be used to critically reconstruct unbuilt projects, looking in particular at projects by the famous Italian rationalist, Giuseppe Terragni. Four villas and several monument buildings are visually represented, their structures and functions examined and assessed using CAAD.
Download or read book Italian Fascism written by Alexander J. De Grand and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the third edition, De Grand has substantially revised the discussion of culture and ideology, the conclusion, and the bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Modern Housing Prototypes written by Roger Sherwood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 32 notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, the buildings are illustrated with photographs, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and striking axonometric drawings.
Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Italy written by Terry Kirk and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.
Download or read book Park G ell written by Conrad Kent and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formatted as a companion volume to Casa Malaparte and The Danteum, this book is a lucid analysis of Park Guell, Antonio Gaudi's begiling creation in Barcelona. The researched text is complemented by both archival and contemporary photographs, measured drawings, and a selection of color plates.
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Alessandra Coppa and published by Ore Cultura Srl. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Terragni's training as an architect can be placed in the complex starting point of Italian Rationalism, wavering between the Futurist legacy, the metaphysical language of Valori Plastici, and the Classicism of the Novecento - the complex and entirely Italian pathway to modernity, where the form and the aesthetic of the building are subordinated to its technical and practical features. Terragni loved to spend his nights working on a large table "filled with drawings helter-skelter", a cigarette dangling from his mouth in the company of his cat Demiurgo. His fellow workers described him as being big and tall, carelessly dressed, with "heavy and awkward" hands that, however, were skilled at drawing "a slender sign, a very subtle, vibrant and neat line". Thus was born the Casa del Fascio, the architect's most representative work, a true and proper manifesto of Italian Rationalism - but also the building destined to interpret the spirit of the Fascist regime and to cause a stir. This was followed by his great apartment buildings (the Case Rustici, Giringhelli, Lavezzari, Toninello, Rustici-Comolli): it was the complex theme of the "modern house" that the 5th Triennial held in 1933 had put forward as the subject of architectural discussion. And then there was the great State architecture on the occasion of the major Roman competitions: for the Palazzo del Littorio, the Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e dei Congressi for the E42 (EUR), and for the Danteum, none of which were ever realised.
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni a Roma Ediz italiana e inglese written by Flavio Mangione and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rationalism and Poetry written by Brian Delford Andrews and published by Culicidae Architectural Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction Como's Asilo D'Infanzia Sant'Elia occupies a unique position in the oeuvre of Giuseppe Terragni. Executed between his two most celebrated works, the Casa del Fascio of 1932, and the Casa Giuliani Frigerio of 1939, Terragni was possibly at the apex of his architectural prowess, via imagination and creativity, at its execution. The building itself is a physical manifestation encompassing Terrangni's seminal ideas and theories on architecture and urbanism. [...] The Asilo, a public nursery school, was a relatively modest project, situated in a working class quarter of Como, just south of the city walls. Its humble location alone rendered the project a departure from the conspicuously public site of the Casa del Fascio, located directly behind the Duomo in the center of town. [...] It is one of the few projects that utilize all of Terragni's architectural canons. It remains the only built project that is neither a casa del fascio, nor a tomb or residential project. The Asilo remains a building largely ignored by both the academy and the architecture profession. However, this humble yet monumental building holds within it a culmination of the lessons and ideas of one of the modern architectural masters of the twentieth century. Careful analysis of this building reveals moments where architecture and meaning come together with both subtlety and consequence. [...] This building represents an unadulterated intellectual exercise where construction, technique, and art are held in careful balance. Marcello Piacentini, the most powerful and influential of all the Italian Fascist architects, known best for the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan and La Sapienza University of Rome, proposed dividing the built environment into one of two types. The first type is clothed in 'underwear', referring to its need for rationalism and structure, and the other clothed in 'evening dress', based on primarily the use of sumptuous materiality. Terragni's Asilo maintains its own category, clothed in a simple white pinafore, a child's smock, similar to those once worn by the very students who have occupied its halls. This nursery school still appears as decidedly modern and relevant as the day it was completed. What Others Say About the Book: In Rationalism and Poetry we finally get an update to the voluminous Schumacher works [from the early 1990s] and, this time, rendered from an architect's perspective. Where Schumacher conducted a historian's reconstruction, Andrews draws for us an architect's analysis. He minutely examines, and often diagrams, the corpus of each building-not in relationship to history but relative to the bodies of other buildings both historic and contemporary. In this concise volume, each chapter becomes a frame for considering one aspect of Terragni's enigmatic design. Robert Miller, Tucson As pointed out by Igor Stravinsky, in the first page of his book Poetics of Music, "poetic" is a word related to the concept of "making", of "doing". Brian Andrews [...] uses the tool of drawing to dissect the Asilo Sant'Elia, unveiling the compositional principles, the design strategies and the hidden geometries, recognizing the parts and elements, exposing the mechanisms of this particular "machine for teaching and learning". At the same time the author's reflections on the urban issues [...], Terragni's proximity to the world of art (Radice, of course, and the other members of the "Astrattismo Comasco" movement, with a fertile cross-pollination between painting and architecture), the reference to the Italian architectural tradition (Michelangelo, the reinterpretation of classical architectural themes), complete Andrews' lively and affectionate portrait of Terragni, an architect who preferred to make architecture (with a strong and personal poetic), instead of being a theoretician. Patrizio M. Martinelli, Oxford, Ohio
Download or read book Fascist Modernism in Italy written by Francesca Billiani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic – huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism – that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history – particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.
Download or read book Giuseppe Terragni written by Peter Eisenman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
