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The work of the two Barcelona architects, in partnership since 1984 and known chiefly for their achievements in the field of civil and public architecture, is presented here in a “thematic” catalogue that records their teaching at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Esteban Bonell e Josep Maria Gil Architetti. Barcellona
edited by
Jacques Gubler
24 x 24 cm, 136 pp.
28 ill. col., 116 ill. b/w
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italian / french
ISBN 8887624100
€ 33 / frs 50.-
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By treating architecture as all the changes made by man to the earth’s surface, Leonardo Benevolo outlines in this book the widest history of the actual idea of architecture: from prehistory to Graeco-Roman and Far Eastern antiquity, from the Christian and Islamic middle ages to the century of science, from the industrial revolution to the new relations between city and territory.
Leonardo Benevolo, I segni dell'uomo sulla terra. Una guida alla storia del territorio
edited by
Enrico Sassi
24 x 24 cm, 348 pp.
571 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 888762402X
€ 45 / frs 70.–
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The book brings together and arranges, for the first time, everything written by Gillo Dorfles about architecture: from the texts of 1930, published when he was only 20, to his essay on Gehry’s Guggenheim of 1998.
The work is completed by a fully updated bibliography of Dorfles’ writings: over 2500 titles ranging from books and catalogues to contributions to magazines and miscellaneous other texts.
Gillo Dorfles, Scritti di architettura 1930-1998
edited by
Letizia Tedeschi
24 x 24 cm, 236 pp.
178 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 8887624097
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A multiple dialogue on the experience of pain, critically surveyed in relation also to the function served by the design of spaces allocated to its reception.
Every hospital in fact materialises the social, civil and cultural perception of pain.
Guido Ceronetti, Giovanni Pozzi, Emanuele Severino et al., La cognizione del dolore e i suoi spazi. Cura, guarigione e architettura
12.5 x 20.5 cm, 128 pp.
36 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 8887624259
€ 7 / frs 10.–
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The Clarté building in Geneva, conceived by Le Corbusier from 1930, is, curiously, one of the most important and least famous of the French-Swiss master’s works. For many reasons, which this catalogue expounds, it should in fact be considered one of the most interesting projects of the first half of the 20th century.
Le Corbusier. La costruzione dell'Immeuble Clarté
edited by
Luca Bellinelli
24 x 24 cm, 144 pp.
81 ill. col.
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italian / french
ISBN 8887624003
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Starting from Mario Botta’s San Carlino in Lugano – a homage to Borromini but also a synthesis of artistic, scientific and ethical values – this book is a dialogue developed between architecture, philosophy and history of art.
In it is reproduced the complete series of atelier drawings prepared by Botta for the realisation of that work.
Fulvio Papi, Stanislaus von Moos, Mario Botta et al., Per un'architettura vivente. Contributo per una nuova lettura del progetto
12.5 x 20.5 cm, 100 pp.
58 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 8887624267
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With the passing of time, words depart from their original meaning and end up clothing an undesirable ambiguity very close, as the author of this dictionary discloses, to the hypocrisy of those still using them.
Albert Jacquard, Abbecedario dell'ambiguità. Dalla Z alla A: parole, cose, concetti
edited by
Cristiana Spinedi
17 x 24 cm, 140 pp.
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italian
ISBN 8887624070
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Saggi, interviste e documenti sul progetto non realizzato di Le Corbusier
H VEN LC Hôpital de Venise Le Corbusier 1963-70. Testimonianze
a cura di
Renzo Dubbini, Roberto Sordina
15 x 21 cm, 128 pp.
brossura
italiano
ISBN 9788887624062
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L'inventario analitico del progetto di Le Corbusier per il nuovo ospedale di Venezia (1963-1970)
H VEN LC Hôpital de Venise Le Corbusier 1963-70. Inventario analitico degli atti del nuovo ospedale
a cura di
Valeria Farinati
15 x 21 cm, 256 pp.
brossura
italiano
ISBN 9788887624045
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This work records the migratory flow which between the 19th and 20th centuries witnessed the departure, by numerous inhabitants of the Cantone Ticino from the Lugano and the Malcantone districts, to “try their fortune” (and successfully, too) in Argentina. In particular, the text concentrates on the contribution by Ticinese clients to the realisation of large-scale projects in Mendoza, Rosario and in the transformation of Buenos Aires into a modern metropolis.
Mercedes Daguerre, La costruzione di un mito. Ticinesi d'Argentina: committenza e architettura 1850-1940
24 x 24 cm, 184 pp.
88 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 8886486162
€ 26 / frs 40.–
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The book documents the Ticino’s rich archival heritage, illustrating exemplary cases of archives preserved at public and private institutions and foundations that have undertaken to defend the cultural inheritance and its architectural memories.
Texts by Letizia Tedeschi, Werner Oechslin, Bruno Maurer, Pierre Frey, Paolo Fumagalli, Nicola Navone, Antonio Gili, Elfi Rüsch, Andrea Giovannini.
Archivi e architetture. Presenze nel Cantone Ticino
edited by
Letizia Tedeschi
24 x 24 cm, 292 pp.
250 ill. b/w and col.
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italian
ISBN 8886486154
€ 36 / frs 50.–
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Building a place means taking part in the choice of daily obligations met by the people who will be living in it, thereby orienting the adventure of a whole community. If this is how we envisage the architect’s mission, then a preliminary reflection is called for: on the relations that link people together and to their host environment.
Albert Jacquard, René Burri, Dall'angoscia alla speranza. Una lezione di ecologia umana
edited by
Luca Gazzaniga, Cristiana Spinedi
24 x 24 cm, 148 pp.
139 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 8887624011
€ 33 / frs 50.–
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Texts by Evandro Agazzi, Fabio Minazzi, Jacques Gubler, Letizia Tedeschi, Claudio Ferrata, Aurelio Galfetti, Raffaele Peduzzi, Aurelio Muttoni.
Progetto e territorio. Gli assi di transito e le trasformazioni territoriali del Cantone Ticino
edited by
Aurelio Galfetti, Letizia Tedeschi
17 x 24 cm, 124 pp.
ill. b/w and col.
paperback
italian
ISBN 8887624291
€ 16,3 / frs 25.–
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Una selezione di disegni e documenti provenienti dagli archivi familiari degli architetti ticinesi Adamini e Gilardi, originari di Bigogno d’Agra e Montagnola, e attivi a San Pietroburgo e a Mosca tra la fine del XVIII e la metà del XIX secolo.
Architetti neoclassici ticinesi fra Neva e Moscova. I fondi grafici degli archivi Adamini e Gilardi
edited by
Piervaleriano Angelini,
Nicola Navone, Alessandra Pfister
17 x 24 cm, 108 pp.
ill. col.
paperback
italian
ISBN 8887624119
€ 19,6 / frs 30.–
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