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26 Design studios, 14 Diploma studios, 97 courses, 90 lecturers, 116 assistants, more than 800 students: a year of teaching activity at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Yearbook 2020. Accademia di architettura
24 × 24 cm, 384 pp.
515 ill. b/w, 51 ill, col.
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english / italian
ISBN 97888876248922
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29 design studios, 13 diploma studios, 90 courses, 97 lecturers, 121 assistants, 803 students: a year of teaching activity at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Academy of Architecture Yearbook 2016
24 × 24 cm, 352 pp.
372 ill. b/w, 65 ill. col.
paperback
inglese / italian
ISBN 9788887624816
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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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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624455
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Fifth edition 2014Winner Junya Ishigami, Japan Candidates Andrade Morettin Arquitetos, Brazil; Alejandro Aravena/Elemental, Chile; Arquitecturia, Spain; Eduardo Castillo, Chile; Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/URBANA, Bangladesh; Santiago Cirugeda/Recetas Urbanas, Spain; DRDH Architects, Great Britain; Sou Fujimoto, Japan; HARQUITECTES, Spain; Go Hasegawa, Japan; Grainne Hassett/Hassett Ducatez Architects, Ireland; Anna Heringer, Austria; Anne Holtrop, Holland; Muharraq, Bahrain; Hua Li/TAO Trace Architecture Office, China, Jun Igarashi, Japan; Sebastian Irarrázaval, Chile, Alexia León, Peru, Inês Lobo, Portugal; Made in, Switzerland; Mokena Makeka/Makeka Design Lab, South Africa; O-Office, China; Oualalou + Choi, France-Morocco; Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Chile; Productora, Mexico; SAMI-arquitectos, Portugal; Vo Trong Nghia, Vietnam; ZECC Architects, The Netherlands
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016
edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 184 pp.
457 ill. col., 76 ill. b/w
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italian / english
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635054
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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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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624427
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The 123 diploma projects proposed in 2015 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Valentin Bearth, Martin Boesch, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Atelier Grafton, Quintus Miller, João Nunes and João Gomes, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
21 × 21 cm, 288 pp.
600 ill. b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624755
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The book shows the big steps that Chinese urbanism is taking today. Beijing and Shanghai represent modern developments: one is the political and cultural center of the nation, while the other is its economic hub. Nanjing is taken as a typical case of Chinese urbanism, with its long history, natural geography, political events, and economic development. Texts in English by Josep Acebillo, Wowo Ding, Chen Zhao, Hongyan Xiao.
Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing: Three Chinese Venues
edited by
Wowo Ding
16,5 × 19 cm, 136 pp.
151 ill. col., 28 ill. b/w
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english
ISBN 9788887624366
€ 16 / frs 25.-
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This volume brings together the works of Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) devoted to the theme of landscape, bringing out the project that informed his gaze: the photographer was an architect by training, and particularly concerned with issues related to urban planning, as well as the development and transformation of the natural environment. The collection opens with a selection of photographs from the cycle Bord de Mer, the work Basilico carried out in the mid-eighties and which introduced him to the international arena: a research project which revealed, among much else, a close relation with art history, in particular with the painters of the eighteenth century. A broad selection is then given from two groups of works done in Switzerland: one dedicated to Luigi Snozzi’s architectural interventions at Monte Carasso (Locarno), the other to the landscape of the Saint-Gotthard Pass, interpreted as a lifeline between northern and southern Europe. Texts by Angela Madesani, Giovanna Calvenzi, João Nunes, Luigi Snozzi.
The Project in the Gaze. Landscape Photographs by Gabriele Basilico
edited by
Marco Della Torre
23.5 x 16.5 cm, 128 pp.
60 ill. b/w
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english / italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836633210
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The book offers an overview of the transformations under way in Johannesburg and its metropolitan area, and a selection of the most interesting architectural and urban projects completed or under way in the last ten years. The common denominator of the best of these projects is twofold: firstly, they implement architectural and planning practices to overcome the social, political and cultural divisions of the past and to respond to the fluidity of the post apartheid landscape; secondly, they contribute to develop South Africa’s enormous economic potential and to make its principal cities international points of reference.Texts in English by Josep Acebillo, Lindsay Bremner, Pep Subirós, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall.
Johannesburg: Emerging / Diverging Metropolis
edited by
Lindsay Bremner, Pep Subirós
16,5 × 19 cm, 176 pp.
185 ill. col., 65 ill. b/w
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english
ISBN 9788887624359
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28 design studios, 90 courses, 100 lecturers, 97 assistants, 791 students: a year of teaching activity at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015
21 × 21 cm, 328 pp.
500 ill. b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624700
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The work of Luciano Rigolini (Tesserete, 1950) is developed in a constant dialogue between photography and painting, an exchange of references through which to explore issues relating to the theory of vision or to clarify the status of photography in contemporary aesthetics. The book opens with an "Exercise in style": 70 snapshots of anonymous subjects, collected by the artist over a period of several years. In their reasoned and sensitive comparison, these images form a sort of visual vocabulary of Rigolini’s oeuvre. They are followed by photographs from the series "Urban landscapes" which, taken between 1990 and 2002, re-examine the urban landscape in a constructivist key.
Luciano Rigolini, The Form of Looking. Photographs '90-'07
edited by
Marco Franciolli
24 x 28 cm, 248 pp.
176 ill. b/w, 9 ill. col.
hardcover
english / italian
ISBN 9788887624335
€ 36 / frs 56.–
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The 99 diploma projects proposed in 2014 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Valentin Bearth, Martin Boesch, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi, Marc Collomb, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara,Quintus Miller, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.
Diploma 2014 Ticino City
21 × 21 cm, 240 pp.
600 ill. b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624687
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First editionWinnerSolano Benitez, ParaguayCandidates3LHD (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
paperback in slipcase
english / italian
ISBN: 9788887624410
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During the spring semester of 2014, the students of the Miller design studio at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture worked on the urban plan and architecture of Basel, focusing in particular on the area that extends along the Aeschengraben and the St. Alban-Anlage, where an extensive restructuring is planned. The work resulted in twelve projects, presented on display at the headquarters of the Basilese Assicurazioni and now brought together in this catalog.
Atelier Miller. Aeschengraben St. Alban-Anlage. Sechs grosse Häuser für Basel. Sei grandi edifici per Basilea
19,5 × 26,5 cm, 178 pp.
22 ill. col., 85 ill. b/w
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german / italian
9788887624649
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The book presents a contemporary picture of the urban development models devised by the Modern Movement and a reflection on what they mean today. Chandigarh and Brasilia, newly founded cities built ex nihilo in 1950-1960, looked explicitly to the “functionalist” and “rationalist” traditions of modern town planning. Also, like some of the plans inspired by the neoclassical that were prepared in the early decades of the 20th century, especially for the building of government capitals or civic centres, they both sought to fulfil monumental ambitions to represent state institutions. The book examines the contemporary reality of Chandigarh and Brasilia through a grid of catchwords that sum up the distinctively modern terms in which the two projects are stated. Divided into two main categories, Urbanism and Architecture, the catchwords accompany the reader along a photographic sequence that helps to define an “official” idiom whereby architecture was expected to represent the “modernisation” of both countries.Texts in English by Josep Acebillo, Maristella Casciato, Stanislaus von Moos. Photographs by: Enrico Cano.
Twilight of the Plan: Chandigarh and Brasilia
edited by
Maristella Casciato,
Stanislaus von Moos
16,5 × 19 cm, 196 pp.
148 ill. col., 77 ill. b/w
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english
ISBN 9788887624342
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30 design studios, 85 courses, 94 lecturers, 110 assistants, 764 students: a year of teaching activity at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Report on Teaching Activities 2013-2014
21 × 21 cm, 328 pp.
505 ill. b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624663
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Arduino Cantàfora, the architect and painter who worked for a long time with Aldo Rossi, has been one of the outstanding personalities at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. His courses represented a highly idiosyncratic attitude to the figure of the teacher, the maestro. Hence the title of the exhibition (Museo d’arte Mendrisio, 10 February 25 March 2007) and its catalogue. The sequence presented, in the exhibition and in the book, is spread over a selection of works by the artist, his assistant Annina Ruf, and students who have attended his ateliers at the Accademia. The event seeks to show how Cantàfora’s art is also an art of the paideia: educational in the formation of tools with which to understand and represent the world and its natural as well as architectural forms. Viewed together, the works of Cantàfora and of his pupils thus stimulate visitors and readers to explore one of the core issues of artistic cultures: the transmissibility of their knowledge.
L'immagine maestra. Opere di Arduino Cantàfora e dei suoi atelier
edited by
Bruno Pedretti
22 × 24 cm, 116 pp.
45 ill. col., 68 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 9788887624311
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The 78 diploma projects proposed in 2013 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Valentin Bearth, Martin Boesch, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Marc Collomb, Quintus Miller, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.
Diploma 2013 Barcelona
21 × 21 cm, 200 pp.
475 ill. b/w
paperback
english / italian
ISBN 9788887624656
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Moscow is today a mighty laboratory for experimentation in social and economic policy and urban planning. As a free market forms and capitalism gathers pace, a new metropolis of a kind never seen before is being born. Following the history of utopian experiments and physical transformations of the city in the 20th century, we can distinguish at least three different and specific approaches to the formation of a model of New Moscow: in the urban experimental projects of the 1920s, and in the master plans of 1935 and 1971. The goal of "New Moscow 4" is to show the kind of transformations Moscow has experienced since the renunciation of socialism, to help identify the character of the city’s regeneration as it switches to a capitalist economy, and to outline prospects for the city’s further development.Texts in English by Josep Acebillo, Blair A. Ruble, Alessandro De Magistris, Irina Korobina, Il’ya Lezhava.
New Moscow 4
edited by
Irina Korobina
16,5 × 19 cm, 180 pp.
184 ill. col., 34 ill. b/w
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english
ISBN 9788887624135
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Fourth edition 2014Winner José María Sánchez García, Spain Candidates Boyd Cody Architects, Ireland; Arno Brandlhuber, Germany; Tom de Paor, Ireland; Anne Feenstra, Afghanistan, India, Nepal; Toni Gironès, Spain; Hall McKnight, Northern Ireland; Go Hasegawa, Japan; Akihisa Hirata, Japan; Hollmén Reuter Sandman, Finland; Höweler + Yoon Architecture, USA; Kumiko Inui, Japan; johnstonmarklee, USA; Carla Juaçaba, Brazil; Lassila Hirvilammi Architects / OOPEAA, Office for Peripheral Architecture, Finland; LTL Architects, USA; MAP Studio-Magnani Pelzel architetti associate, Italy; onishimaki + hyakudayuki architects, Japan; Sameep Padora, India; Smiljan Radic, Chile; Camilo Restrepo, Colombia; Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Norway; Mauricio Rocha, Mexico; Sergison Bates Architects, England; Studio Weave, England; TYIN tegnestue Architects Trondheim, Norway; Raphael Zuber, Switzerland
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2014
edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 180 pp.
287 ill. col., 77 ill. b/w
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italian / english
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836629794
€ 35 / frs 50.–
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