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Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the  20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the  20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the  20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the  20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the  20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press
Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration, Mendrisio Academy Press

Texts in Italian, English, French or German by Steffen Adam, Francesca Albani, Giulio Barazzetta, Maria Luisa Barelli, Bernard Bauchet, Winfried Brenne, Berthold Burkhardt, Jacques-Louis de Chambrier, Anke Fissabre, Enrico Giacopelli, Franz Graf, Alberto Grimoldi, Ivo Hammer, Giulia Marino, Monika Markgraf, Sander Nelissen, Bernhard Niethammer, Ingrid Paoletti, Bruno Reichlin, John Robertson, Pierre Roquette, Arthur Ruegg, Simona Salvo, Adolf Stiller, Ola Wedebrunn.

Il vetro nell'architettura del XX secolo: conservazione e restauro / Glass in the 20th Century Architecture: Preservation and Restoration

edited by
Franz Graf, Francesca Albani
21 x 25 cm, 496 pp.
355 ill. b/w, 13 ill. col.
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ISBN 9788887624502
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Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Riuso del patrimonio architettonico, Mendrisio Academy Press

The first issue of the “Quaderni dell’Accademia di architettura”, a periodical which presents contributions and testimonies of the school’s many activities (not just its teaching), is devoted to the recovery of the architectural heritage. This theme, of particular relevance to the contemporary design scene, is explored by scholars, who shed light on the relevant theoretical, historical and social factors, and by architect-professors who, through the presentation of a number of their projects, highlight the different strategies of intervention in the built.

Texts by Bruno Reichlin, Franz Graf, Bernhard Furrer, Claude Raffestin, Bruno Pedretti, Roberta Grignolo.

Projects by: Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, Miller & Maranta, Burkhalter Sumi, E. & M. Boesch, Mario Botta.

Riuso del patrimonio architettonico

edited by
Bruno Reichlin, Bruno Pedretti
19 x 24.5 cm, 144 pp.
170 ill. b/w and col.
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836620760
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Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press
Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata, Mendrisio Academy Press

The Ticinese architect Luigi Canonica was employed by Napoleon in the years running from the Cisalpine Republic to the Kingdom of Italy and was again active at the Restoration. This book combines a monographic approach, aimed at the reconstruction and critical study of all of Canonica’s works, with an organization by major topics, such as his contribution to the process of urban renewal in Milan (he was the author, among other projects, of Foro Bonaparte and the Arena and drafted the first ever master plan for the city), his achievements in the architecture of gardens, villas, theaters and municipal buildings (such as the Villa Reale and Palazzo Reale in Milan and the Villa Reale with its park in Monza), and his role in the organization of offices for the control of architectural projects.

Reflecting this organization, the book presents essays by scholars and historians together with some 200 analytical entries devoted to specific works written by other specialists.

Luigi Canonica 1764-1844. Architetto di utilità pubblica e privata

edited by
Letizia Tedeschi, Francesco Repishti
24 x 28 cm, 440 pp.
349 ill. col.
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836621002
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Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
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Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press
Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti, Mendrisio Academy Press

Giulio Minoletti (1910-1981), architect, urban planner and designer, is highly representative of the different phases of the 20th century in Italy. This handy format photographic book presents the interiors of five apartments in Milan. These are projects on which the architect impressed his personal hallmark, with the focus on aspects a that characterized his entire oeuvre: a concern for the relation between interiors and exteriors, the fluidity of space, the flexibility of internal divisions, accurate detailing, technological innovations and a careful choice of materials.

Texts by Alberto Bassi, Maria Cristina Loi, Elena Triunveri.

Oltre un rettangolo di cielo. Interni milanesi di Giulio Minoletti

edited by
Maria Cristina Loi, Elena Triunveri
23.5 x 16.5 cm, 100 pp.
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ISBN 9788836620067
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Diploma 2010 Architectural and Urban Transformations in the City of Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Architectural and Urban Transformations in the City of Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2010 Trasformazioni architettoniche e urbane nella città di Varese, Mendrisio Academy Press

The 105 Diploma projects proposed in 2010 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel Aires Mateus, Michele Arnaboldi, Martin Boesch, Esteban Bonell, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter e Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Marc Collomb, Quintus Miller, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.

Diploma 2010 Architectural and Urban Transformations in the City of Varese

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635 ill. b/w
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Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside, Mendrisio Academy Press

A booklet documenting work by Studio Sergison at the Mendrisio Academy in the fall semester of 2009. The publication contains one paper by Jonathan Sergison, originally given as lecture in the course of the semester, a photographic record of the reference buildings analysed and of the projects produced by the students.

Studio Sergison, Inside / Outside

20 x 26.5 cm, 64 pp.
89 ill. col., 66 iil. b/w
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ISBN 9780954237127
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S4 News Fall2010

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Nelle Alpi, la coesistenza dell’uomo con gli animali selvatici è stata a lungo segnata da antagonismi che si sono cristallizzati in molteplici rappresentazioni culturali. Oggi, la crescente ingerenza dell’uomo nell’ambiente naturale ha trasformato gli animali selvatici da specie accettate (o tollerate) relegate ai margini degli spazi antropizzati a specie da tutelare, in un delicato equilibrio tra nuove sensibilità ecologiche e volontà di preservare la montagna quale spazio di vita umano.

L'homme et l'animal sauvage / Mensch und Wildtiere

2010/15


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BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010, Mendrisio Academy Press

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Winner
Diébédo Francis Kéré (Germany / Burkina Faso)
Candidates
Iñaqui Carnicero, Ignacio Vila, Alejandro Vírseda, Spain; Adam Caruso, Peter St John, Great Britain; Davide Cristofani, Gabriele Lelli, João Pedro Falcão de Campos, Portugal; Dietmar Feichtinger, France and Austria; Arturo Franco Diaz, Spain; Sosuke Fujimoto, Japan; José Fernando Gonçalves, Portugal; Erich Hubmann, Andreas Vass, Austria; Bjarke Ingels, Denmark; Junya Ishigami, Japan; Christian Kerez, Switzerland; Andrea Liverani, Enrico Molteni, Fabio Mariani, João Mendes Ribeiro, Portugal; MGM-Morales Giles Mariscal, Spain; Hiroshi Nakamura, Japan; nARCHITECTS (Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang), USA; Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk, The Netherlands; Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Chile; Joshua Prince-Ramus, USA; Bernard Quirot, France; Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Slovenia; Markus Scherer, Italy; José Selgas, Lucia Cano, Spain; URBANUS (Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan, Wang Hui), China; Xu Tiantian, China

BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2010

edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 184 pp.
411 ill. col., 101 ill. b/w
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Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Schoolness, Mendrisio Academy Press

A booklet documenting work by Studio Sergison at the Mendrisio Academy in the spring semester of 2009. The publication contains two papers by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, originally given as lectures in the course of the semester, a photographic record of the reference buildings analysed and of the projects produced by the students.

Studio Sergison, Schoolness

20 x 26.5 cm, 60 pp.
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ISBN 9780954237134
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Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press
Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar, Mendrisio Academy Press

Like many of their fellow countrymen, the architects Visconti, Ruggia and Staffieri pursued fame and fortune in the Russia of the tsars, following the trail blazed at the dawn of the eighteenth century by Domenico Trezzini, the celebrated protagonist of the foundation of Saint Petersburg. Their vicissitudes appear between the lines of the letters sent to family, relatives and friends, brought together, fully annotated, in this volume to give a clear picture of the interweaving of family and professional relations in the context of Russian architecture and society.

Dalle rive della Neva. Epistolari di tre famiglie nella Russia degli zar

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Nicola Navone
24 x 28 cm, 224 pp.
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ISBN 9788887624441
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Luoghi di partenza, ma anche luoghi del ritorno, le Alpi costituiscono per molti emigranti la concretizzazione ultima del loro progetto di vita. Il riannodarsi dei legami con il luogo di origine riflette delle aspirazioni antitetiche. Se da un lato il ritorno può apparire come il riflesso di un presunto immobilismo, dall'altro rappresenta un importante vettore di cambiamento e di superamento dell'isolamento, testimoniato da innumerevoli tracce materiali e immateriali presenti nella vita di numerose comunità.

Les migrations de retour / Rückwanderungen

2009/14


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Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
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Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
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Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
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Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press
Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque, Mendrisio Academy Press

A booklet documenting work by Studio Sergison at the Mendrisio Academy in the autumn semester of 2008. The publication contains two papers by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, originally given as lectures in the course of the semester, a photographic record of the reference buildings analysed and of the projects produced by the students.

Studio Sergison, Urban Picturesque

20 x 26.5 cm, 48 pp.
77 ill. col.
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english
ISBN 9780954237127
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Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2009 Lausanne Metamorphose, Mendrisio Academy Press

The 88 Diploma projects proposed in 2009 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel Aires Mateus, Michele Arnaboldi, Martin Boesch, Esteban Bonell, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter e Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Marc Collomb, Henk Hartzema, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.

Diploma 2009. Lausanne Metamorphose

21 × 21 cm, 208 pp.
520 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624455
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Diploma 2008 Alptransit and
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and
Diploma 2008 Alptransit and "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2008 L'alptransit e la
Diploma 2008 L'alptransit e la "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2008 L'alptransit e la
Diploma 2008 L'alptransit e la "Città Ticino", Mendrisio Academy Press

The 78 Diploma projects proposed in 2008 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel Aires Mateus, Esteban Bonell, Mario Botta, Marc Collomb, Aurelio Galfetti, Valerio Olgiati, Luigi Snozzi, Elia Zenghelis, Peter Zumthor.

Diploma 2008. Alptransit and "Città Ticino"

21 × 21 cm, 228 pp.
490 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624427
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Nella cultura alimentare alpina, l'uso delle risorse locali si mescola con pratiche e modelli veicolati dei contatti con luoghi ed esperienze esterne. L'alimentazione è dunque nel contempo l'espressione della cultura materiale locale e dei valori identitari e di identificazione sociale e culturale. Un'espressione che si riverbera sulla cultura della salute, sui saperi medici, sulla farmacopea, come pure sulla prassi sanitaria messa in opera a favore della sicurezza alimentare.

Alimentation et santé dans les Alpes / Ernährung und Gesundheit in den Alpen

2008/13


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BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008, Mendrisio Academy Press

First edition
Winner
Solano Benitez (Paraguay)
Candidates
3LHD (Saša Begović, Marko Dabrović, Tanja Grozdanić, Silvije Novak), Croatia; David Adjaye, Great Britain; Manuel e Francisco Aires Mateus, Portugal; Jesús Aparicio, Spain; Gion A. Caminada, Switzerland; Alfonso Cendron, Italy; Dominique Coulon, France; Richard Francis-Jones, Australia; Sean Godsell, Australia; Thomas Heatherwick, Great Britain; Rick Joy, USA; Alberto Kalach, Mexico; Francisco Mangado, Spain; Luis L. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Alvarez, Spain; Rahul Mehrotra, India; Quintus Miller, Paola Maranta, Switzerland; Marco Navarra (NOWA), Italy; Office dA (Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Tehrani), USA; Valerio Olgiati, Switzerland; Promontório Architects (João Perloiro, João Luís Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo Martins Barata, Pedro Appleton), Portugal; Saša Randić, Idis Turato, Croatia; João Alvaro Rocha, Portugal; Enric Ruiz Geli (Cloud 9), Spain; S-M.A.O. (Juan Carlos Sancho, Sol Madridejos), Spain; Beniamino Servino, Italy; Shuhei Endo, Japan; The next ENTERprise (Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, Ernst J. Fuchs), Austria; Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Spain; Wang Shu, China

BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008

edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 196 pp.
326 ill. col., 92 ill. b/n
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ISBN: 9788887624410
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La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press
La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia da Caterina II a Alessandro I, Mendrisio Academy Press

It is true that the eighteenth century marks the entry of Russia into “European time” or, as Vittorio Strada writes in this book, «into the rhythm of a modernity that had found its origins in western Europe». But it is in the arts and, above all, in architecture, that the process is most remarkably evident. For between 1762, when Catherine II ascended the throne, and the death of her grandson Tsar Alexander I in 1825, the neoclassical style fully established itself and witnessed, in Russian architecture, an absolutely original interpretation. To that singular achievement Italian architectural culture made a major and multifarious contribution, which the present collection of essays seeks to explore.

La cultura architettonica italiana in Russia

Da Caterina II a Alessandro I

edited by
Piervaleriano Angelini,
Nicola Navone, Letizia Tedeschi
17 x 24 cm, 572 pp.
22 ill. col., 260 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624397
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Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press
Rino Tami. Opera completa, Mendrisio Academy Press

The founding father of contemporary architecture in Ticino, Rino Tami (1908-1994) designed, when still very young, the Lugano Canton Library (1936-1940), the first excellent example of a modern public building in Ticino. In the Forties, organic architecture became a part of his wide cultural heritage. His professional maturity, attained in the Fifties and Sixties with public buildings (headquarters of the Italian Swiss Radio in Lugano) and private houses (Torre House in Lugano, Nadig House in Maroggia), coincided with his teaching commitment at the Zürich Polytechnic. From the Sixties he also held the post of supervisor of the architectural features along the Ticinese stretch of the Swiss motorway: tunnel entrances, bridges, portals, viaducts, embankment walls, service area buildings, public conveniences, storehouses, air shafts.

Rino Tami. Opera completa

edited by
Kenneth Frampton, Riccardo Bergossi
24 x 28 cm, 496 pp.
800 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624373
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Le Alpi sono generalmente percepite come uno spazio ai margini della modernità e poco aperto alle sue infl uenze. Tuttavia questo modello di modernizzazione, dove la crescita economica e sociale è intesa come il prodotto di stadi sempre univoci nel tempo e nello spazio, è difficilmente applicabile ai percorsi storici delle società alpine. I contributi raccolti in questo volume confermano le molte sfaccettature delle esperienze del mondo alpino e la labilità dei confini tra le nozioni di "tradizione" e di "modernità".

Traditions et modernités / Tradition und Modernität

2007/12


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