Catalogue Mendrisio Academy Press
The book deals with the troubled issue of the relation between legislation and the protection of twentieth-century architecture through a constructive dialogue between the competencies of specialists in various fields: architects, curators, lawyers and security experts. The questions raised by the topic are analysed in theoretical terms but also in their immediate operative relevance, through a discussion of the principles underlying the principles subtending the regulations in force in various sectors.
Texts in Italian, English, French or German by Bernard Bauchet, Martin Boesch, Marco Borghi, Andrea Canziani, Mauro Gandolla, Wolfgang Karl Göhner, Markus Gehri, Daniele Graber, Roberta Grignolo, Pierino Lestuzzi, Walter Maffioletti, Joe A. Manser, Dieter Martin, Gustavo Milani, Tapani Mustonen, Barbara Neubauer, Terjie Nypan, Valeria Pracchi, Régis Prunet, Bruno Reichlin, Oskar Spital-Frenking, Ana Tostões.
Diritto e salvaguardia dell'architettura del XX secolo / Law and the Conservation of 20th Century Architecture
edited by
Roberta Grignolo, Bruno Reichlin
21 x 25 cm, 312 pp.
168 ill. col., 168 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 97888836627226
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Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979), last century’s most famous Italian engineer, devised many of his architectural works by using sophisticated scale models which provided a preview of their stability. The result of elevated scientific knowledge and craft skills, these models accurately reflect Nervi’s ideas, always convinced of the necessary synthesis between engineering and architecture, science and art. The book is the result of lengthy historical archival research, enriched by a very full iconographic apparatus that reveals the exceptional nature of these “miniature masterpieces”.
Gabriele Neri, Capolavori in miniatura. Pier Luigi Nervi e la modellazione strutturale
19 x 24.5 cm, 344 pp.
320 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788836627233
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Giulio Minoletti (1910-1981) graduated in architecture in 1931, when he was just 21 years old, after experiences that included working as an illustrator and fashion designer during his university studies. At the Politecnico di Milano he completed a training with a traditionalist matrix, but at the same time observed with interest the work of Le Corbusier and Gropius, showing himself a firm supporter of modernity. His long professional career spanned two successful seasons, the thirties and the period of reconstruction, and was characterized by an unusual versatility of interests: he was represented at all the editions of the Milan Triennial 1930-1957, an assistant at the School of Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano 1930-1949 and active in the architectural debate in Milan. Minoletti’s work covered the whole scale, ranging from the design of the city to that of the object, with an ease that was the sign of a “wholly Italian versatility”, as Gio Ponti observed.
Giulio Minoletti’s professional archive, of which this volume presents the analytical inventory, is preserved in the Archivio del Moderno in Mendrisio.
Giulio Minoletti (1910-1981). Inventario analitico dell'archivio
edited by
Elena Triunveri
15 x 21 cm, 384 pp.
144 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788836628513
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Giulio Minoletti (1910-1981), a Milanese architect, was notable for his remarkable versatility, his flair for experimental research into forms, materials, polychromes and hybrids between artistic genres that characterized his work as architect, builder and designer of housing estates, green areas, swimming pools and objects. This publication brings together the work of analysis of Minoletti’s works conducted by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture during the spring semester of 2013, in collaboration with the Archivio del Moderno in Mendrisio, which preserves Minoletti’s archives. The complexity and variety of his output is firstly placed in its Italian and international setting in a timeline that opens the publication, and then illustrated through a broad collection of projects. An initial essay, a brief biography and a portfolio of recent photographs complete the volume.
Giulio Minoletti architetto, urbanista e designer
edited by
Christian Sumi, Annalisa Viati Navone
23.5 x 16.5 cm, 200 pp.
359 ill. b/w, 91 ill. col.
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italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836628650
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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
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ISBN 9788887624656
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This first “Quaderno” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to a building by Rino Tami from the fifties, the Avegno Depot of the Maggia S.A. Hydroelectric Workshops. The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the Depot 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.
Rino Tami. Deposito Avegno, 1953-1955
edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 48 pp.
36 ill. b/w.
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ISBN 9788887624601
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«I’m gazing at photos of construction work. It is a fund acquired by the Academy of Mendrisio, representing the construction of Linea 1 of the Milan subway. Photographs with no artistic purpose, a pure record of the facts. No literature, no flights of fancy or female distractions, pure factual concreteness. Photos by engineers. Yet so beautiful, so full of stories.»
Gianni Biondillo
Metro Milano. Il cantiere della metropolitana milanese 1958-1962. Una documentazione fotografica con un racconto di Gianni Biondillo
edited by
Angela Windholz
23.5 x 16.5 cm, 112 pp.
107 ill. b/w
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italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836627080
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This collection of essays traces a promenade, discontinuous and multi-directional, amid the themes, interests, curiosities and concerns that marked the creation and guided the design path of some of the works of Le Corbusier, beginning with his research in the thirties into the «elegant solution», the form of a “reticent” structure or fluid internal spatial qualities, and down to the development in the sixties of original, proliferating, «open building» compositions, above all in the trend towards receptiveness to multiple interpretations that the observer feels authorized to make on the basis of his culture.
Bruno Reichlin (Lucerne, 1941), an architect with a professional activity in restoration, was a professor at the Institut d’Architecture of the University of Geneva until 2006 and a professor at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture until 2011. He has curated exhibitions and written essays on Alberto Sartoris, Robert Mallet Stevens, Max Bill, Frederick Kiesler, Oswald Haerdtl, Asnago and Vender, Mies van der Rohe, Carl Weidemeyer, Philip Johnson, Carlo Scarpa.
Bruno Reichlin, Dalla «soluzione elegante» all'«edificio aperto». Scritti attorno ad alcune opere di Le Corbusier
edited by
Annalisa Viati Navone
19 x 24.5 cm, 432 pp.
470 ill. b/w and col.
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836626755
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Increasingly, and today even urgently, architecture needs to be understood as an interdisciplinary culture that deals with the organization of the living space, because the world beyond it is inevitably dominated by individual branches of knowledge, whether technical, engineering, scientific, organizational and even aesthetic. And if the logic of specialized spheres of competence gains the upper hand, these fields of knowledge will be transformed from indispensable contributions into precepts that reduce the project to a collage of solutions, with overall results that will be dismal. To prevent architecture from ending up relegated to the destiny of a technical service or mere aesthetic entertainment, it is essential to continuously rethink the design process in ways that will reinforce the figure of a total operator.
Texts by Werner Oechslin, Stefano Musso, Bruno Pedretti, Christoph Frank, Sonja Hildebrand, Annemarie Jaeggi, Fulvio Irace, Manfredo di Robilant.
Projects by: Atelier Cube, Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus, Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, Mario Botta, Bonell and Gil, Aurelio Galfetti.
L'architetto generalista
edited by
Christoph Frank, Bruno Pedretti
19 x 24.5 cm, 320 pp.
126 ill. col., 90 ill. b/w
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italian, english abstracts
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836624607
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The 106 diploma projects proposed in 2012 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Martin Boesch, Esteban Bonell, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi, Antonio Citterio, Marc Collomb, Quintus Miller, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.
Diploma 2012. Lisbon and the Tagus
21 × 21 cm, 254 pp.
560 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624588
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The “Quaderni di Cultura del territorio” bring together all the papers and studies presented by scientists, public administrators and planners at the conferences on "Public Space in the 'Ticino City' of Tomorrow", a project funded by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research under the PNR 65 national research programme on "New Urban Quality", coordinated by Michele Arnaboldi, professor at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana.
Texts by João Nunes, Claudio Ferrata, Fabio Guarneri, Paolo Poggiati, Enrico Sassi.
Projects by Rino Tami, Aurelio Galfetti, Flora Ruchat Roncati and Ivo Trümpy, Jean Nouvel, Álvaro Siza, ASP Landschaftarchitekten, Bellmunt i Andreu Arquitectes Associats.
Costruire il paesaggio
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi, Enrico Sassi
19 x 24.5 cm, 104 pp.
93 ill. b/w and col.
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italian
ISBN 9788887624571
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This slender volume contains five studies devoted to one of the most famous Italian architects, Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), a true pioneer of design in Milan in the second half of the last century. His achievement, interpreted principally in relation to clients and the industry that endorsed his forward-looking insights and favoured the creation of cutting-edge projects, is investigated in the essays all accompanied by a refined series of illustrations.
Texts by Alberto Bassi, Fiorella Bulegato, Maddalena Scimemi, Christian Sumi, Letizia Tedeschi.
MZ Progetto integrato. Marco Zanuso design, tecnica e industria
edited by
Alberto Bassi, Letizia Tedeschi
23.5 x 16.5 cm, 112 pp.
100 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788836626755
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This volume brings together for the first time a selection of the writings of the Milanese architect and designer Marco Zanuso (1916-2001). Chosen from articles, conference papers, lectures and public meetings, they include a number that are unpublished. The choice of texts seeks to represent the breadth of Zanuso’s interests, ranging from new techniques of mass production to the relations between art and architecture, the role of technology in design and management methods in the design process, and his contribution to the contemporary architectural debate.
The volume is accompanied by illustrations of Zanuso’s works and projects, from the architect’s rich photographic collection.
Foreword by Bruno Reichlin, introductory essay by Roberta Grignolo.
Marco Zanuso, Scritti sulle tecniche di produzione e di progetto
edited by
Roberta Grignolo
19 x 24.5 cm, 350 pp.
282 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836622986
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Third edition
Winner
Studio Mumbai (India)
Candidates
Alejandro Aravena, Chile; architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Belgium; Atelier Bow-Wow, Japan; Nuno Brandao Costa, Portugal; Angelo Bucci, Brazil; Marcus Donaghy, William Dimond, Ireland; Ecosistema urbano, Spain; Anton Garcia-Abril, Spain; Anna Heringer, Austria; Zhang Ke, China; Zhang Lei, China; LTL Architects, USA; Gurjit Singh Matharoo, India; Alberto Mozo, Chile; muf architecture/art, Great Britain; Hiroshi Nakamura, Japan; Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Chile; Smiljan Radic, Chile; Camilo Rebelo, Portugal; Enric Ruiz-Geli, Spain; Jose Maria Saez, Ecuador; Joao Pedro Serodio, Isabel Furtado, Portugal; Dominic Stevens, Ireland; Jonathan Woolf, Great Britain; Alejandro Zaera Polo, Spain-Great Britain
BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2012
edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 176 pp.
384 ill. col., 44 ill. b/w
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english / italian
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ISBN: 9788836624775
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This volume brings together contributions from some of the leading scholars and designers on the protection of interior space, which in the work on the architectural heritage of the twentieth century is often overshadowed by the outer shell. The various issues raised by the topic are analysed from the theoretical and thematic viewpoints, as well as in immediately functional terms through discussions of operations already completed.
Texts in Italian, English, French or German by Cecile Briolle, Andrea Canziani, Dorothea Deschermeier, Fernando Fiorino, Hartmut Frank, Emilia Garda, Michel Goutal, Roberta Grignolo, Justin Gunther, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, Joris Molenaar, Marco Pogacnik, Bruno Reichlin, Jacques Repiquet, Giorgio Rigone, Arthur Ruegg, Paola Scaramuzza, Lynda S. Waggoner.
Lo spazio interno moderno come oggetto di salvaguardia / Modern Interior Space as an Object of Preservation
edited by
Roberta Grignolo, Bruno Reichlin
21 x 25 cm, 296 pp.
228 ill. col., 160 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836624171
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This dense work, containing a wealth of previously unpublished data and images, explores certain aspects of the architecture of the 1920s and 30s in relation to concepts of nationalism and internationalism in the political context of Switzerland. It does not aim to study either nationalism or internationalism in themselves, nor the dialectical and political conflicts between them, seeking only to provide a survey of certain situations in which architects openly appealed to either of these outlooks.
Jacques Gubler, Nazionalismo e internazionalismo nell'architettura moderna in Svizzera
19 x 24.5 cm, 392 pp.
239 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836622962
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"Microcosmi" documents the didactic activity of Valentin Bearth’s Design Studio at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture between 2004 and 2012. It describes the methodology and the premises of the course within the context of the school and presents a selection of student projects. The didactic report is completed by the transcription of a lecture by Aurelio Galfetti, where the parallel presentation of two built projects, the Rotalinti House in Bellinzona and his house on the island of Paros, offers a significant contribution on the theme of inhabitation.
Atelier Bearth, Microcosmi
edited by
Mihail Amariei
20 x 24 cm, 352 pp.
500 ill. col. and b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624564
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The volume presents essays in Italian and French by authoritative scholars and historians of architecture: Margherita Azzi Visentini, Martine Boiteux, Stefano Bosi, Francesco Ceccarelli, Gian Paolo Consoli, Blanche de la Taille, Alain Delaval, Elena Dellapiana, Fabrizio di Marco, Rossella Fabiani, Valeria Farinati, Luigi Gallo, Jean-Philippe Garric, Pascal Griener, Cecilia Hurley, Henry Lavagne, Jean-Michel Leniaud, Isabelle Leveque, Carlo Mambriani, Tommaso Manfredi, Fabio Mangone, Susanne Meyer, Odile Nouvel, Susanna Pasquali, Pierre Pinon, Daniel Rabreau, Pier Paolo Racioppi, Francesco Repishti, Marie Richard, Serenella Rolfi, Marc Saboya, Ilaria Sgarbozza, Letizia Tedeschi, Sergio Villari.
L'Architecture de l'Empire entre France et Italie
edited by
Letizia Tedeschi, Daniel Rabreau
19 x 24.5 cm, 544 pp.
216 ill. b/w
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french and italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836622955
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The “Quaderni di Cultura del territorio” bring together all the papers and studies presented by scientists, public administrators and planners at the conferences on "Public Space in the 'Ticino City' of Tomorrow", a project funded by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research under the PNR 65 national research programme on "New Urban Quality", coordinated by Michele Arnaboldi, professor at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana.
Texts by Riccardo De Gottardi, Gian Paolo Torricelli, Andrea Felicioni, Enrico Sassi.
Projects by Michel Desvigne, OMA, NL Architects, Zaha Hadid, Smarch Architekten, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus.
Territorio e mobilità
edited by
Enrico Sassi
19 x 24.5 cm, 120 pp.
98 ill. b/w e col.
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italian
ISBN 9788887624526
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The 114 Diploma projects proposed in 2011 by the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in the design studios run by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Walter Angonese, Michele Arnaboldi, Martin Boesch, Esteban Bonell, Mario Botta, Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi, Marc Collomb, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Julian Lewis, Quintus Miller, Valerio Olgiati, Jonathan Sergison.
Diploma 2011. High Street London
21 × 21 cm, 304 pp.
600 ill. b/w, 14 ill. col.
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624533
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