Catalogue Mendrisio Academy Press
«Along with Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre, Paris of 1932, and Adalberto Libera’s Casa Malaparte in Capri of 1938, the Villa Girasole, finally launched on its diurnal cycle in 1935, now begins to assume its rightful place as one of the eccentric masterpieces of twentieth century architecture» (Kenneth Frampton).
Texts in English and Italian by Kenneth Frampton, Aurelio Galfetti, Valeria Farinati.
Photographs by Enrico Cano.
Villa Girasole. La casa rotante / The Revolving House
Kenneth Frampton, Aurelio Galfetti, Valeria Farinati
photographs by Enrico Cano
24 x 28 cm, 192 pp.
120 ill. col., 57 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788836627745
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The result of a competition held in the summer of 1967, the Swimming Baths of Bellinzona by Aurelio Galfetti, Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Ivo Trümpy offers the first concrete manifestation of that “territorial architecture” that has been a feature of architecture in the Ticino from the late sixties down to its most recent developments. Drawing on largely unpublished materials preserved in the Archivio del Moderno, supplemented with drawings, photographs (historical and current), documents from the private archives of the architects, and other public and private records, the volume presents a critical reading of the work while retracing its history: from the competition to the development of intermediate variants down to the drafting and completion of the final project.
Texts by Bruno Reichlin, Nicola Navone, Martin Steinmann, Franz Graf and Monica Sciarini.
Colour photographs by Enrico Cano.
Il Bagno di Bellinzona di Aurelio Galfetti, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Ivo Trümpy
edited by
Nicola Navone, Bruno Reichlin
24 x 28 cm, 220 pp.
387 ill. b/w and col.
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836623013
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Built in Milan between 1954 and 1958 to provide a home for children in difficulty, the Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute by Vittoriano Viganò represents, through its innovative educational program, its “neo-Brutalist” vocabulary and its material nature, a phase of outstanding interest in European architectural research. This volume presents a critical reading of the work by many voices, conducted through the interpretation of previously unpublished materials from the Viganò family, the architect’s professional archives, and the archives of the client, the contractor and other professionals.
Texts by Bruno Reichlin, Letizia Tedeschi, Alberto Grimoldi, Franz Graf, Francesca Albani, Gianni Ottolini, Valeria Farinati.
Photographs by Ugo La Pietra and Enrico Cano.
L'Istituto Marchiondi Spagliardi di Vittoriano Viganò
edited by
Franz Graf, Letizia Tedeschi
24 x 28 cm, 304 pp.
495 ill. b/w and col.
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ISBN 9788887624434
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This nineth issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to the Case Terenzio (1969-1971), by Roberto Bianconi. The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the Houses 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.
Roberto Bianconi. Case Terenzio, 1969-1971
edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 64 pp.
35 ill. col., 25 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624878
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The Design and Diploma studios, the courses, the lectures, the books and the expositions: a year of activities at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Accademia di architettura, Yearbook 2019
24 × 24 cm
382 pp.
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ISBN 9788887624892
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“To lay a solid foundation for the teaching of the theory of landscape architecture, we need to start by developing a critical atlas of the works created during the short history of the discipline. We need to identify, analyse and interpret these works, which means engaging in a true hermeneutic activity. Research activities in the field of landscape architecture should start here, from the unwritten history of the discipline. This activity will have to proceed in a comparative and open way, scrutinising across a broad range everything that can enter into a (reasoned) repertoire of landscape architecture. As long as such an instrument is lacking, the teaching of the subject will always remain reductive and approximate” (Michael Jakob).
Michael Jakob, L'architettura del paesaggio
14,5 x 19 cm, 48 pp.
27 ill. col., 5 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836645565
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This volume brings together a series of contributions illustrating the work done in recent years by the Laboratorio Ticino, a structure of the USI Academy of Architecture devoted to the design of the territory, whose work also flows into the teaching and dissemination of urban culture and contemporary landscape design.
Texts by Michele Arnaboldi, Gianni Biondillo, Riccardo Blumer, Frédéric Bonnet, Claudio Ferrata, Aurelio Galfetti, João Nunes, Gian Paolo Torricelli e Simone Garlandini.
Laboratorio Ticino
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi
with Enrico Sassi and Francesco Rizzi
19 x 24,5 cm, 228 pp.
255 ill. b/w and col.
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ISBN 9788887624885
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This book is the outcome of a teaching project stemming from a consolidated approach to research into the contemporary city. It uses the case of Milan as an introduction to the study of the co-evolution between social city and physical city, an analytical and project theme that has marked modern urban planning.
The first part describes the process of formation of the city of Milan as it is in fact; the second presents a methodology for analysing the morphology of the territory of the municipality of San Donato Milanese, interpreted as part, as a district, of Greater Milan.
Milano: città e territorio. Uno studio di caso
Antonio Calafati,
Carlottavio Basellini, Alberto De Lorenzo, Stefano Zoli
19 x 22,5 cm
96 pp.
80 ill. col., 14 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836646647
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How can we avoid the creation of new ghettos or the proliferation of dormitory neighbourhoods? How does architectural action encourage ties between individual and family life and the social and collective dimensions? The special character of social housing lies in this twofold specificity: it responds to primary needs and offers scenarios of life capable of accommodating the complexity of public space. In doing so, the design of social housing is closely bound up with the urban fact and its deep social, cultural and temporal stratification. The design of important sections of the city constitutes the underlying motif of all 15 editions of WISH (Workshop on International Social Housing), a formative project launched in 2003 by the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and recounted in this volume.
Quindici anni di WISH
Workshop on International Social Housing
2003-2017
edited by
Martino Pedrozzi, Andrea Nardi
17 x 24 cm
280 pp.
96 ill. col., 204 ill. b/v
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italian
ISBN 9788887624915
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An artist of international renown based in Belgium, Koen Vanmechelen has centered his work on the relation between nature and culture throughout the course of an almost forty-year-long journey. Acclaimed for his exploration of the intersections between art and science, the artist tries, through his projects, to understand and pose questions on the great challenges of the 21st century. Sculptor, painter, performer, filmmaker, as well as a human rights advocate, the artist has rounded out his projects for the hybridization of both animals and plants with the contamination of the figurative arts, of materials and media making formal proliferation within conceptual complexity his own personal earmark on a creative universe that is as unique as it is unmistakable. This catalogue of the exhibition illustrates more than sixty-five pieces ‒ which were all realized between 1982 and 2019 ‒ intended to highlight the more strictly plastic aspects of his body of work.
Texts by: Boas Erez, Mario Botta, Didi Bozzini, James Putnam, Marcus Thelen, Pierluigi Panza, Koen Vanmechelen.
Koen Vanmechelen. The Worth of Life 1982-2019
edited by
Didi Bozzini
27 x 27 cm, 222 pp.
80 ill. col., 23 ill. b/w
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Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836645015
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This eighth issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to the Scuola media Losone, by Livio Vacchini and Aurelio Galfetti (1972-1974). The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the building 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.
Livio Vacchini, Aurelio Galfetti. Scuola media Losone, 1972-1974
edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 64 pp.
13 ill. col., 37 ill. b/w
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ISBN 9788887624854
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The Atlas is the outcome of the PNR 65 research on “Public Space in the ‘Città Ticino’ of Tomorrow”.
The research established four territorial units: 1. River Ticino North; 2. River Ticino South; 3. Ceresio Basin; 4. Insubria triangle. The same methodology for analysis and design process is applied to each territorial unit. Each volume of the Atlas collects a series of critical contributions in the form of essays, a complete set of territorial and urbanistic analysis maps, design projects drawings (territorial and urbanistic scale: 1:25’000, 1:5’000), a selection of design studios from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture on topics identified by the research.
Texts by Aurelio Galfetti, Alessandro Balducci, Remigio Ratti, Gianni Biondillo, Mario Botta.
Atlante Città Ticino 4. Comprensorio Triangolo insubrico
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi
with Enrico Sassi and Francesco Rizzi
26.5 x 38 cm, 224 pp.
126 ill. col., 230 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 9788887624793
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The Atlas is the outcome of the PNR 65 research on “Public Space in the ‘Città Ticino’ of Tomorrow”.
The research established four territorial units: 1. River Ticino North; 2. River Ticino South; 3. Ceresio Basin; 4. Insubria triangle. The same methodology for analysis and design process is applied to each territorial unit. Each volume of the Atlas collects a series of critical contributions in the form of essays, a complete set of territorial and urbanistic analysis maps, design projects drawings (territorial and urbanistic scale: 1:25’000, 1:5’000), a selection of design studios from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture on topics identified by the research.
Texts by Aurelio Galfetti, Ilaria Valente, Davide Ferrari and Andrea Oldani, Serena Maffioletti, Piero Martinoli, Marco Borradori, Michele Arnaboldi.
Atlante Città Ticino 3. Comprensorio Bacino Ceresio
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi
with Enrico Sassi and Francesco Rizzi
26.5 x 38 cm, 228 pp.
152 ill. col., 174 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 9788887624717
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28 Design studios, 13 Diploma studios, 92 courses, 95 lecturers, 112 assistants, 808 students: a year of teaching activity at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Academy of Architecture Yearbook 2018
24 × 24 cm, 360 pp.
426 ill. b/w, 67 ill, col.
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ISBN 9788887624861
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The Atlas is the outcome of the PNR 65 research on “Public Space in the ‘Città Ticino’ of Tomorrow”.
The research established four territorial units: 1. River Ticino North; 2. River Ticino South; 3. Ceresio Basin; 4. Insubria triangle. The same methodology for analysis and design process is applied to each territorial unit. Each volume of the Atlas collects a series of critical contributions in the form of essays, a complete set of territorial and urbanistic analysis maps, design projects drawings (territorial and urbanistic scale: 1:25’000, 1:5’000), a selection of design studios from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture on topics identified by the research.
Texts by Andreas Kipar, Frédéric Bonnet, Tiziano Maddalena e Marzia Mattei Roesli, René Opitz, Ruggero Tropeano, Michele Arnaboldi.
Atlante Città Ticino 2. Comprensorio Fiume Ticino Sud
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi
with Enrico Sassi
26.5 x 38 cm, 220 pp.
141 ill. col., 178 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 9788887624618
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The Atlas is the first issue of the PNR 65 research publication plan on “Public Space in the ‘Città Ticino’ of Tomorrow”. It includes the final output for the first of the four territorial units. The research established four territorial units: 1. River Ticino North; 2. River Ticino South; 3. Ceresio Basin; 4. Insubria triangle. The same methodology for analysis and design process is applied to each territorial unit. Each volume collects a series of critical contributions in the form of essays, a complete set of territorial and urbanistic analysis maps, design projects drawings (territorial and urbanistic scale: 1:25’000, 1:5’000), a selection of design studios from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture on topics identified by the research.
Texts by Franz Oswald, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Renato Svaluto-Ferro and Renato Gaggini, Stefano Zerbi, Michele Arnaboldi.
Atlante Città Ticino 1. Comprensorio Fiume Ticino Nord
edited by
Michele Arnaboldi
with Enrico Sassi
26.5 x 38 cm, 224 pp.
137 ill. col., 205 ill. b/w
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italian
ISBN 9788887624540
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«Design cannot be taught as objective knowledge with a clearly defined content, and this is one reason why instruction in this field cannot be integrated into orthodox university models. Teaching design means asking students to experience the project from within, to follow a path of non-linear, analogous, associative, and open-ended thinking combining intuition with the application of objective knowledge. Above all, it calls for a coherent theoretical and formal narrative that is not determined a priori, but rather while the project itself is being worked out. Students must directly experience how anything, or almost anything, can be transformed into an architectural idea. This is likely a new approach for them as it breaks with the positivist instruction and scientific fundamentals on which most of the educational systems they experience before entering a school of architecture are based. My teaching is not unilateral: it is itself, in an analogical way, hesitant, wavering, coming together bit by bit as it goes along» (Éric Lapierre).
Forty Eight Pages: Éric Lapierre
14,5 x 19 cm, 60 pp.
27 ill. b/w and col.
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Silvana Editoriale
9788836642380
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This seventh issue of the series “Quaderni” from the BSc course in “Construction Systems and Processes” is devoted to the Arsenale militare Biasca (1940-1942), a complex designed by the architects Giuseppe Antonini, Giannetto Broggini, Bruno Brunoni, Giuseppe Ferrini, Ferdinando Fischer, Augusto Jäggli, Americo and Attilio Marazzi, Oswald Roelly, Carlo and Rino Tami. The second year students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, guided by professor Franz Graf, carried out practical work on the Arsenale articulated in the collection and analysis of original documentation, the redrafting of the buildings 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 buildings, 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.
Antonini, Broggini, Brunoni, Ferrini, Fischer, Jäggli, Marazzi, Roelly, Tami. Arsenale militare Biasca, 1940-1942
edited by
Franz Graf, Britta Buzzi-Huppert
21 x 29.5 cm, 60 pp.
38 ill. b/w
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english / italian
ISBN 9788887624847
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Louis Kahn e Venezia: rapporti umani, progetti, mostre, incontri con gli studenti, conferenze e riflessioni speciali, come quella improvvisata sul tetto di Palazzo Ducale, davanti alle cupole marciane. Ogni capitolo di questa liaison apre pensieri su temi complessi: il rapporto tra la memoria del passato e la cultura del presente; la rilettura dell’architettura antica da parte di un visionario moderno; il rapporto tra architettura e ingegneria in un Palazzo immaginato come un grande ponte sospeso; la ricezione dell’opera di Kahn in Italia e la speranza progettuale della cultura moderna. Dalla somma di queste esperienze emerge la lettura che Louis Kahn fa di Venezia, ancora oggi meritevole di essere approfondita sia in chiave storica sia in relazione ai problemi odierni della città.
Testi di: Elisabetta Barizza, Mario Botta, Fulvio Irace, Gabriele Neri, Werner Oechslin.
Louis Kahn e/and Venezia
edited by
Elisabetta Barizza, Gabriele Neri
27 x 27 cm, 222 pp.
50 ill. col., 150 ill. b/w
hardcover
english / italian
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641628
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Sixth edition 2018
Winner
Elisa Valero (Spain)
Candidates
Al Borde (Ecuador), Arquitetos Associados (Brazil), Barozzi Veiga (Spain), Baserga Mozzetti (Switzerland), baukuh (Italy), Fernanda Canales (Mexico), ChartierDalix (France), José Cubilla (Paraguay), Frida Escobedo (Mexico), Gong Dong-Vector Architects (China), H+F Arquitetos (Brazil), Anna Heringer (Germany), Akihisa Hirata (Japan), Anne Holtrop (The Netherlands / Bahrain), Hua Li / Trace Architecture Office (Cina), Kumiko Inui (Japan), Carla Juaçaba (Brazil), Anssi Lassila / Office for Peripheral Architecture (Finland), Li Zhang / TeamMinus (China), Ling Hao (Singapore), Rozana Montiel (Mexico), Daniel Moreno Flores (Ecuador), onishimaki + hyakudayuki architects (Japan), Orkidstudio Architects (Kenya), Oualalou + Choi (France /Morocco), PAO – People’s Architecture Office (China), James Russell (Australia), Sami Arquitectos (Portugal), SO-IL (USA), Marina Tabassum (Bangladesh), TNA Architects (Japan)
Swiss Architectural Award 2018
edited by
Nicola Navone
24 x 24 cm, 192 pp.
400 ill. col., 77 ill. b/w
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italian / english
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641970
€ 45 / frs 50.-
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