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Academy of Architecture Yearbook 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Academy of Architecture Yearbook 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
Accademia di architettura Annuario 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press

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.
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ISBN 9788887624816
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Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo, Mendrisio Academy Press

Tomaso Adamini (1764-1827) and his sons Leone (1789-1854) and Domenico (1792-1860) were among the leading Ticinese architects and builders active in St. Petersburg, by the importance of their works and the duration of their activity, which extended from the last years of the reign of Catherine II until the mid-nineteenth century.

This book presents an annotated and illustrated catalogue of the holdings of their drawings in the Archivio del Moderno in Mendrisio: a fund comprising the drawings made by family members together with autograph sheets attributable to their employees or notable architects of the time: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817), Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (1759-1813), Carlo Rossi (1775-1849), Giovanni Battista Scotti (1776/77-1830), Alexander Brjullov (1798-1877), André Stackenschneider (1802-1865).

The catalogue is preceded by an extensive essay by Nicola Navone that frames the work of the Adamini architects in the setting of Russia and St. Petersburg, and within the context of the ​migrations of craft workers characteristic of the Ticinese area.

Gli architetti Adamini a San Pietroburgo. La raccolta dei disegni conservati in Ticino

a cura di
Nicola Navone
24 x 28 cm, 256 pp.
160 ill. col., 120 ill. b/w
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italian, english abstract
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635443
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Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press
Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967, Mendrisio Academy Press

This fifth issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to the Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, built in Personico by Augusto Jäggli with Giovanni Lombardi and Giuseppe Gellera (1962-1967). The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the project articulated in the collection and analysis of original documentation, the redrafting of the building plans and the production of axonometric projections and constructional models made to scale. A selection of the material collected for the course, with the original drawings and period photographs, together with a historical reading of the building, a structural analysis and a selection of students’ works make up this issue, which is intended not only to demonstrate the presence in Ticino of a notable architectural work, but also to furnish the operators responsible for its conservation with pointers about appropriate ways of carrying out maintenance or restoration work.

Augusto Jäggli, Giovanni Lombardi, Giuseppe Gellera. Centrale Idroelettrica Nuova Biaschina, 1962-1967

edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 56 pp.
46 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624779
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Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press
Alpi e patrimonio industriale, Mendrisio Academy Press

What does the industrial past of the Alps teach us?

The various studies contained in this volume explore differences and similarities in the protection of the industrial heritage in relation to the evolution of memory and the construction of the heritage in recent decades in the alpine world.

Alpi e patrimonio industriale

edited by
Luigi Lorenzetti
Nelly Valsangiacomo
14.5 x 19 cm, 308 pp.
31 ill. b/w
paperback
italian, french, german 
ISBN 9788887624786
€ 25 / frs 25.–

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Per le Alpi, le vie di transito sono sempre state degli importanti vettori di interazione con il mondo esterno. Nel corso dei secoli, la realizzazione di infrastrutture viarie – dalle mulattiere alle autostrade – ha creato i presupposti necessari alla mobilità di persone, merci e culture, condizionando nel contempo le traiettorie storiche dei territori che ne sono stati toccati. I contributi qui presentati analizzano le varie sfaccettature del transito attraverso le Alpi soffermandosi sugli aspetti istituzionali e commerciali, sulle conflittualità e sulle sue ripercussioni socio-economiche delineando di riflesso i movimenti di lunga durata dell’integrazione europea.

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BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2016, Mendrisio Academy Press

Fifth edition 2014
Winner
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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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635054
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L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press
L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas, Mendrisio Academy Press

The third volume of the “Quaderni” presents the reflections of the architect-professors who compose the Faculty Board of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture-Università della Svizzera italiana. It is not, however, the customary exposition of their vision of the discipline and professional practice. The contributions embody such themes in varying degrees, but above all they present the cultural frame of reference that each architect believes to be the most significant in explaining his or her personality. The term “atlas” in the title should therefore be understood as the set of formative lessons, technological and historical curiosities, aesthetic explorations and intellectual orientations that form the expressive canon of each architect.

Contributions by: Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Valentin Bearth, Riccardo Blumer, Martin Boesch, Mario Botta, Riccardo Blumer, Marianne Burkhalter & Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Marc Collomb, Grafton Architects, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Quintus Miller, João Nunes, Valerio Olgiati, and Jonathan Sergison. 

L'atlante dell'architetto / The Architect's Atlas

edited by
Bruno Pedretti
19 x 24,5 cm, 252 pp.
160 ill. col., 120 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836634569
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Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini  di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press
Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico, Mendrisio Academy Press

Augusto Guidini (1853-1928) is numbered among the pioneers of Swiss art history and conservation, as well as one of the most learned architects of his age, together with Gottfried Semper, Karl Moser and Hans Bernoulli. Yet this recognition has not hitherto been accompanied by an adequate historiographical assessment. The Library of the Academy of Architecture, which preserves the libraries of many famous architects bequeathed to it, also holds Augusto Guidini’s professional library, and has now promoted this first monographic study of the achievements of the Ticinese architect. Enriched with a complete and detailed atlas of his works, It presents contributions reconstructing the human and professional attainments of this versatile artist, fine draftsman and outstanding intellectual of his time.

Texts by Riccardo Bergossi, Stefania Bianchi, Valeria Farinati, Arnaldo Guidini, Chiara Lumia, Ornella Selvafolta, Angela Windholz.

Augusto Guidini di Barbengo. Architetto, giornalista, politico

edited by
Angela Windholz
24 x 34 cm, 160 pp.
37 ill. col., 84 ill. b/w
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Edizioni Casagrande
ISBN 9788877137272
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Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957, Mendrisio Academy Press

This fourth issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to the Hotel Arizona built in Lugano by Tita Carloni and Luigi Camenisch (1955-1957). The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the project articulated in the collection and analysis of original documentation, the redrafting of the building plans and the production of axonometric projections and constructional models made to scale. A selection of the material collected for the course, with the original drawings and period photographs, together with a historical reading of the building, a structural analysis and a selection of students’ works make up this issue, which is intended not only to demonstrate the presence in Ticino of a notable architectural work, but also to furnish the operators responsible for its conservation with pointers about appropriate ways of carrying out maintenance or restoration work.

Tita Carloni con Luigi Camenisch. Albergo Arizona, 1955-1957

edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 48 pp.
35 ill. b/w.
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624731
€ 18 / frs 20.–

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Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture
Diploma 2015 13 Topics of Architecture

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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Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press
Report on Teaching Activities 2014-2015, Mendrisio Academy Press

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
paperback
english / italian
ISBN 9788887624700
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The Project in the Gaze. Landscape Photographs by Gabriele Basilico, Mendrisio Academy Press
The Project in the Gaze. Landscape Photographs by Gabriele Basilico, Mendrisio Academy Press
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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
paperback
english / italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836633210
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Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press
Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press

During the last twenty years, the topic of form has become one of the most controversial issues in public and professional discussions about architecture. Hardly anyone reflected on this as intensely as the 2015 Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto, whose concept of Form-Finding is aimed at preventing any processes of designing or shaping.
This book aims to re-examine the issue by expanding on the exemplary case of Frei Otto. The subject is approached from varyingly wide perspectives, ranging from pathways to form in engineering research and in experimental model-making to the ideological-critical reflections on form by Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas.

Texts by Elisabeth Bergmann, Daniela Fabricius, Roberta Grignolo, Sonja Hildebrand, Sean Keller, Kurt Möser, Gabriele Neri, Stefan Neuhäuser with Martin Weickgenannt, Christoph Witte, Walter Haase, Oliver Sawodny and Werner Sobek, Lara Schrijver.

Form-Finding, Form-Shaping, Designing Architecture. Experimental, Aesthetical, and Ethical Approaches to Form in Recent and Postwar Architecture

edited by
Sonja Hildebrand, Elisabeth Bergmann
19 x 24,5 cm, 180 pp.
56 ill. col., 51 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836632657
€ 32 / frs 35.–

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Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press
Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo, Mendrisio Academy Press

The theme of the book is the definition of the relations between community and work in the alpine and subalpine environment. The setting of the Alps has resulted in specific forms of organisation of work and ownership, for example by emphasising the role of the collective management of land assets, but, at the same time, the organisation of work has modified and characterised life differently in mountain communities than in lowland communities. Alpine areas provided opportunities not always present elsewhere: exploitation of forests and waters, employment as guides, and transportation of goods by pack animals through the mountain passes and of travellers in transit. These were just some of the possible spheres of work in these areas. The texts that the reader will find in the book are organised into five sections: the first dedicated to collective needs and local resources, the second to the organisation of work, the third to trade and commerce, the fourth to infrastructure and, finally, with a function of comparison and contrast, a fifth section devoted to “other mountains”.

Montagne, comunità e lavoro tra XIV e XVIII secolo

edited by
Roberto Leggero
14.5 x 19 cm, 260 pp.
27 ill. b/w
paperback
italian
ISBN 9788887624724
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Nelle Alpi, le attività manifatturiere protoindustriali hanno a lungo convissuto con i sistemi di fabbrica. Gli articoli di sintesi qui presentati relativi alle realtà alpine di Svizzera, Francia, Slovenia e Italia sono un importante strumento comparativo per un’emergente storia dell’industria alpina e l’occasione per ripensare le traiettorie economiche di uno spazio che ha conosciuto lo sviluppo sia di «sistemi produttivi locali» che di modelli fordisti.

Des manufactures aux fabriques / Von der Manufaktur zur Fabrik

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Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton. L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press
Kenneth Frampton. L'altro Movimento Moderno, Mendrisio Academy Press

This volume grew out of a series of lectures given by the author in Mendrisio, at the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana. The lessons are designed to compensate for a tendency to oversimplify the cultural complexity of the so-called Modern Movement, which today appears very diverse in its many manifestations. Many of the architects of the works discussed in this collection, despite adopting a seemingly shared syntax, seem in fact to have approached the task of building on the basis of their own values ​​and models and to have adopted methods that are relatively open, both technologically and socio-culturally. Hence the thesis presented here, namely that though certain works can be included in the category of a generic abstractism, they yet each reveal a subtle variation in response to the context in which it is situated, even if all of them invoke the dogma of the flat roof, accompanied by a structural steel or reinforced concrete system and large glazed surfaces.
The book is organized into eighteen chapters, each devoted to an architect (from Rudolf Schindler to Arne Jacobsen, Richard Neutra, Max Bill, Johannes Duiker, Jaromír Krejcar, passing through Eileen Gray, Willem Marinus Dudok, Louis Herman De Koninck, Pierre Chareau, Sigurd Lewerentz, Evan Owen Williams, Antonin Raymond, Erich Mendelsohn, Berthold Lubetkin, Vilhelm Lauritzen, Max Ernst Haefeli & Werner Moser, and Alejandro de la Sota), giving a brief historical-biographical introduction to each before analysing in particular a relevant work. The text is richly illustrated.
Kenneth Frampton (1930) is one of the leading theorists and critics of architecture. A professor at Columbia University in New York, he has also taught at the major academic institutions, including the Royal College of Art in London, the Polytechnics of Zurich and Lausanne, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam and the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. He is the author, among other books, of "Modern Architecture: A Critical History" (Thames & Hudson), a classic of historiography translated worldwide.

Pierre-Alain Croset: «Book after book, Kenneth Frampton continues making distinctive choices in defending and reaffirming the validity of the project of modernity, while supporting the necessity to critically analyse architectural works as a built form that can produce quality of experience and programmatic innovation».

Kenneth Frampton, L'altro Movimento Moderno

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Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press
Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire, Mendrisio Academy Press

Compelled to leave Bucharest in 1948, Ionel Schein (1927-2004) found political asylum in Paris, where his biography is entwined with that of some leading figures on the architectural scene of the time, such as Georges-Henri Pingusson, Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé and Bruno Zevi, with whom he developed enduring relationships ranging from intellectual affiliation to professional collaboration. His projects are notable for a unified design embodying light prefabricated elements and a distribution system capable of evolving over time together with the needs of the inhabitants. This program would include futuristic prototypes, such as the first plastic house, a lightweight knockdown single-family residence, built entirely using synthetic materials in pop colours. This volume offers a reading of Schein’s work drawing directly on the architect’s archive, to date almost entirely unexplored.

Preface by Carlo Olmo. Afterword by Claude Parent.

Silvia Berselli, Ionel Schein. Dall'habitat evolutivo all'architecture populaire

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ISBN 9788836631438
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Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press
Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971, Mendrisio Academy Press

This third issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to a big residential building, Villa Gerosa, designed by the ticinese architect Tita Carloni and built in Rancate, near Mendrisio (1967-1971). The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the project articulated in the collection and analysis of original documentation, the redrafting of the building plans and the production of axonometric projections and constructional models made to scale. A selection of the material collected for the course, with the original drawings and period photographs, together with a historical reading of the building, a structural analysis and a selection of students’ works make up this issue, which is intended not only to demonstrate the presence in Ticino of a notable architectural work, but also to furnish the operators responsible for its conservation with pointers about appropriate ways of carrying out maintenance or restoration work.

Tita Carloni. Villa Gerosa, 1967-1971

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Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 48 pp.
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Diploma 2014 Ticino City, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Ticino City, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press
Diploma 2014 Città Ticino, Mendrisio Academy Press

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

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600 ill. b/w
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Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press
Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia, Mendrisio Academy Press

«Many years ago I was struck by a lecture by the German philosopher Hans Robert Jauss, who maintained that in life … it is important to be prepared. I realised that we must always work hard and that even in the absence of any real prospects, what is important is to be prepared. As we know, the idea of a project pre-exists to some degree the opportunities of time and place, and that makes Jauss’ philosophical suggestion even more useful for us as architects, as it reminds us that preparation is a form of project design» (Francesco Venezia).

Forty Eight Pages: Francesco Venezia

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22 ill. b/w, 1 ill. col.
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9788836630691
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