D72
“1955-1957 - Edificio per abitazioni, uffici e negozi,
via Legnano - Gigi Gho”

Author: Marco Biraghi, Adriana Granato
Photographer: Sosthen Hennekam
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 19 x 26 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Print: Black and white
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Place of publication: Milan
Publisher: Hoepli
Year of publication: 2021
ISBN: 978 883 600 6113

Link:
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L'architettura di Milano. The city written by architects from post-war period to the present

Milano, nel corso degli ultimi settant’anni, è stata capace di costruirsi una propria identità: identità moderna, ma anche identità di città storicamente (oltreché geograficamente) italiana. Ed è proprio in quanto esemplare pressoché unico di una compiuta “modernità italiana” che Milano è riuscita a rimanere al passo e a istituire un proficuo dialogo con molte altre realtà europee e internazionali. Lo ha spesso fatto guidata da quei principi più pragmatici che estetici che ne hanno connotato la cifra stilistica.

Come in un museo a cielo aperto, le vie cittadine offrono un eccellente campionario di architettura moderna e contemporanea, firmata dai nomi di celebri architetti italiani e stranieri: BBPR, Caccia Dominioni, Gardella, Rossi, Zucchi, Herzog & de Meuron, Sejima, Eisenman. Un’architettura in grado nella gran parte dei casi d’integrarsi perfettamente alla città, di rispettarne le logiche, così come di rispecchiare quel particolare mix di eleganza e rigore che nel mondo è riconosciuto come precipua caratteristica milanese.

Il libro affida la descrizione e l’interpretazione di 150 tra gli edifici più significativi della città ad altrettanti autorevoli studiosi e protagonisti della scena architettonica attuale e si candida a diventare un punto di riferimento per chiunque vorrà ricostruire come è cambiato il volto della città a partire dal secondo dopoguerra.

D71
“Asymmetries and Urbanization” pp. 313-324

Authors: Luis Callejas, Andrea Branzi, Elisa Cattaneo
Editor: Rosalea Monacella, Bridget Keane
Cover: Siena Scarff Design
Illustratore: S. Hennekam
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
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Place of publication: NewYork
Publisher: Routledge
Year of publication: 2022
ISBN: 978 036 770 3653

Link:
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Designing Landscape Architectural Education:
Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures

No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of "symptoms" – increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfire events, salinification and desertification of fertile land, and the list goes on. It reveals and amplifies complex causal relationships that are inherently present and traverse scales, sectors and communities divulging a range of impacts and inequalities. This publication asks designers and academic practitioners to describe their own work through an ecological lens, and then to articulate design approaches for developing new practices in landscape architecture teaching.
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Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures, the Landscape Architecture Design Studio Companion, serves as a resource for academic practitioners in the preparation and delivery of "design-research studios" and students seeking guidance for design methodologies as a part of their landscape architectural education. It draws on the manifold issues of the climate crisis as a set of drivers to examine the utilisation of a range of innovative design approaches to address the current and future priorities of the discipline.
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The landscape architecture discipline is evolving rapidly to respond to both a broadening and intensification of changes in the environmental, social and political conditions. These changing conditions require innovation that extend the core competencies of landscape architects. This book addresses two fundamental questions – what are the design competencies required of landscape architects to equip them to deal with the complexities brought forth by contemporary society, and as a result, how could we design the future design studio?

D70
Yuxtaposición extrema.
A symbiotic relationship between the spontaneous settlements and the morphology of the natural context

Authors: Carlotta Olivari, Margherita Pasquali, Francisco Diaz
         Elisa C. Cattaneo
Cover: Siena Scarff Design
Illustratore: S. Hennekam
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 124
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978 889 163 8786

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This thesis aims to investigate the issue of informality. Specifically, it is analyzed the symbiotic relationship between the informal development and the morphological conformation of the natural context, with the consequent intersection of the inhabited space and the natural one. Studying and intervening in this context, means giving a reading of the informal space, which can not disregard the social and political aspects that characterize the area of development. The spatial interaction between the natural context and the informal advancement is extreme in the Chilean territory. After developing a transdisciplinary theoretical-design platform between the landscape architectural, philosophical and sociological fields, the final objective of the thesis is to apply the defined design method in response to the endemic problems detected in different places. The aim is to show that the natural context becomes an essential dynamic resource in the informal development process; therefore, the strategy of the outlined architectural intervention, which takes into account social interactions and therefore the human factor, must be related and conform to this natural process. “0-n” is a collection of master thesis which I oversaw as supervisor at Politecnico di Milano. These books are a platform of heterogeneity, which find their common field in the theory of weakness, as imperfect and manifold way of knowledge. The aim is to experience an alternative method for contemporary spaces, able to regenerate the stabilized ideas of design. They are more experimental and vital texts/tests than verification procedures: this attitude brings them away from a strictly educational approach. They can be read according to two levels of meaning: in their specific contexts and as open platforms for contemporary researches. Almost all of them are focused on processual values and on project transdisciplinary, in order to promote a cognitive space before a real one. I provided the students with fews thematic lines (a sense of short- circuit, trial, process of meaning), which were underlining an interpretation of knowledge in a horizontal sense, as Gilles Deleuze had defined.These topics have been independently developed by the candidates, so that they can be considered as authors of a new idea. I instructed this learning and researching method, because I belive that the secret of an effective education in to coinvince each student to be able to build his own vision of the world, without stereotyped positions. I am finalising the object of education in the freedom of intelligence, and not in the rules of disciplines, by broading the students’ needs and points of view. To cross the world in new expanded geographical horizons. Carlotta Olivari Graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan in Architecture with honors (2019), during her university career she won the Erasmus scholarship at the FAUL, Lisbon and subsequently won the scholarship "Tesi all’estero" at the PUC, Santiago del Chile. Among her work experiences she takes part in the landscape architecture team in the invitation competition "Budapest Southgate" with Peter Eisenman, DEArchitects and Weakcircus and carries out a research period at MS-Lab Milan on the project "TELL ME". In 2018 she founded Dispace Landscape Architecture, a research platform, with M. Pasquali. Margherita Pasquali Currently PhD Fellow at the University of Trento in "Architecture, Planning and Landscape". Graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan in Architecture with honors (2019), during her university career she won the scholarship "Tesi all’estero" at the PUC, Santiago de Chile. Among her work experiences she takes part in the landscape architecture team in the invitation competition "Budapest Southgate" with Peter Eisenman, DEAarchitects and Weakcircus and carries out a research period at MS-Lab Milan on the project "TELL ME". In 2018 she founded Dispace Landscape Architecture, a research platform, with C. Olivari....

D69
“Mies Van Der Rohe” pp. 58-63, 188-194, 374-375

Authors: Andrea Branzi
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Language: English / Italian
Dimensions: 23 x 31 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
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Place of publication: Milan
Publisher: 24 ORE Cultura
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 997 888 664 84271

Link:
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Big book of design

Da Gio Ponti a Philippe Starck, da Ettore Sottsass ai fratelli Castiglioni: il volume raccoglie tutti i più grandi protagonisti della storia del Design, creatori di oggetti ormai entrati a far parte del nostro quotidiano. Saggi introduttivi racconteranno ciascun designer fornendo le principali chiavi di lettura della sua opera secondo la storiografia, o produzione critica corrente, mentre una selezione di scritti autografi o un’intervista ne spiegherà il pensiero e la poetica. Un atlante degli oggetti illustrerà, inoltre, alcuni tra gli oggetti più famosi, attraverso brevi schede, disegni e fotografie. L’intenzione è di offrire una divulgazione accurata, destinata a chiunque sia interessato a conoscere il design, sia esso studente, professionista o semplicemente cultore e appassionato, offrendo informazioni di base ma anche un orientamento per eventuali approfondimenti. Un volume indispensabile per seguire il percorso creativo dei grandi maestri del Design internazionale, dagli anni Venti ad oggi.

D68
“Il territorio debole. Un approccio ecologico” pp. 125-136

Authors: Alberto Bologna、Roberto Caterino
         Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo、Cinzia Gavello
         Raimondo Guidacci、Hubert Lempereur
         Maria Paola Repellino、Ramon Rispoloi
         Veronica Salomone
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Language: Italian
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Place of publication: Milan
Publisher: Franco Angeli
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978 889 178 1444

Link:
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Valorizzazione, Transizione, Trasformazione

Questo volume raccoglie gli esiti progettuali e le riflessioni teoriche maturate nell'occasione della scuola estiva internazionale di architettura Sewing a small town. Hilltowns and culture of landscape, svoltasi a Gassino Torinese nel luglio 2017.
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I saggi raccolti in questo volume, redatti da organizzatori, insegnanti, conferenzieri e critici intervenuti nelle discussioni ai progetti, nascono con l'obiettivo di sistematizzare pensieri ed esporre ricerche rispetto a tematiche riconducibili ai concetti di valorizzazione del patrimonio costruito e ai processi di transizione che hanno portato a trasformazioni alla scala micro-urbana, nelle loro più diverse, dinamiche e ampie accezioni.

Le analisi e i progetti elaborati per Bardassano e Bussolino, frazioni di Gassino Torinese, centri minori oggi inseriti nel complesso Unesco-MaB, CollinaPo Man and Biosphere Reserve, diventano infatti la pragmatica occasione per mettere alla prova complesse posizioni teoriche e approcci progettuali volti alla risignificazione di contesti urbani periferici in fase di spopolamento: attraverso una metodologia d'indagine multidisciplinare e multiscalare diventa così plausibile pianificare l'innesco di un efficace processo di riattivazione di questi borghi e del territorio in cui essi sorgono.

D67
Inoperative Scapes.
Performative ecology on Thai-Burma Border

Authors: Marco Casalena
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 889 163 0575

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Ethnic minorities in Burma struggled against the State in order to obtain their rights on the territory, for decades. People were forced to flee from their villages to Thailand, across the border. On these territories they have been seen not as be refugees but rather as illegal immigrants, condition that led to the establishment of "temporary camps". This condition became permanent until today, where refugee camps are the result of a juxtaposition of dwellings that represent a repetitive self-aggregating and organized matrix without specific attention to the territorial configuration, with a non-vertical stratification which underlines a process of spontaneity and adaptation to a context imposed by geo-political specifications. The aim of this research is to imagine an “inoperative scape” capable of activating or deactivating its constituent elements according to new ways of use and with different finalities. This new design platform represents a flexible and non-planned aggregation of a process of interaction with the ground, seen as a “level zero” through which inoperative and techno natural devices interface within the ecological room. This is a radical figure of the Landscape Ecology that, through n-configurations, creates new scenarios of weak urbanization based on the performativity of the various ecological elements in a new infrastructural system which goes beyond camp boundaries. Marco Casalena Fondazione Renzo Piano Recipient in 2017, he graduated with honors in Architecture in July 2018 with a thesis titled “Inoperative Scapes Performative ecology on Thai-Burma Border” In 2017 he worked for RPBW in Paris (six months Internship program) following his research on sustainable architecture. His interests are about refugee camps with an ecological approach based on a theoretical strategy in the Landscape Ecology field, rethinking the territory as a new platform through which weak architecture elements and landscape coexist. Carmen Andriani Architect, full professor in Architectural and Urban Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Genova, she deals with architectural and urban planning both in consolidated and territorial contexts with particular reference to infrastructural and metropolitan landscape issues. After her degree in architecture with L.Quaroni, she has been full professor and director at the Department of Architecture in Pescara; guest critic at numerous Canadian and North American faculties, in 2005 at Tongji University in Shanghai, (Expo 2010Shanghai - Landscape Renewal), in 2007 of the XII International Design Seminar in Al Ain (United Arab Emirates). In 2006 she coordinated the design team of the Faculty of Architecture of Pescara at the Venice Biennale (International workshop “Learning from the city”). Elisa C. Cattaneo Foundation Grant Recipient in 2014, is adjunct professor in landscape design at the Politecnico di Milano. She researches on experimental ecological design and their theoretical implications. After receiving her degree in architecture, she attended a master program in strategic planning for architectural, urban, and environmental resources; in 2009, she Graham received her PhD in architectural and urban design. She continued to develop her research interests as a visiting scholar at MIT (2010) and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2011-12). She is founder and director of the independent research agency Weak Circus, through which she studies, researches, and develops projects on contemporary urbanism related to the theory of weakness.

D66
A Borgesian Tabula: The Symbiotic / Composite as an Epistemological
Rupture and a New Paradigm in Landscape Research pp. 221-226

Authors: Roberto Pasini
Foreword: Peter G. Rowe
Afterword: Elisa C. Cattaneo
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback / E-book
Pages: 252
Illustrations (B&W): 10
Illustrations (Colour): 43
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Place of publication: Cham
Publisher: Springer Cham
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 331 977 8860

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Landscape Paradigms and Post-urban Spaces:
A Journey Through the Regions of Landscape

This book presents: 1) an urban-studies panorama on the emergence of a built/landscape continuum following the anthropic expansion at the geographic scale and the consequent demise of the city/country divide; 2) an in-depth theoretical analysis of disparate landscape constructs, culminating in the proposal of a comprehensive spatial paradigm addressing both manmade and natural contexts; 3) the in-situ transcription of the proposed spatial paradigm into a landscape installation implementing a territorial narrative in the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. Foreword by Peter G. Rowe and afterword by Elisa C. Cattaneo.

By virtue of its openness, fluidity, and volatility, fluctuating between heterogeneity and diversity, today’s built/landscape continuum exhibits analogies with distinct notions of landscape. The book determines an open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies exceeding the urban and metropolitan ambit, through a comparative anatomy of global case studies ranging from hard to soft: geotechnics or applied geographies, machinic micro-ecologies, aesthetic prostheses for operative metabolism, cybernetic utopias, atmospheric assemblages, psychic spheres, creole horizons, semiotic landscapes, geopolitical landscapes, geophilosophical excavations. The proposed spatial paradigm, accommodating aggregates of artificial and living systems, physical and mental spaces, and machinic and cultural landscapes, intends to reconcile the traditionally opposed ‘scientific-cognitive-metabolist’ and ‘cultural-geophilosophical-territorialist’ visions of the landscape. The resulting model transcends the exhausted myths of urban space, metropolitanism, and their filiations, in favor of a new form of urbanity and its attributes. Parts of the work were developed in the frame of research projects of Universidad de Monterrey and Parque Ecológico Chipinque and the IDAUP of UniFE and Polis.

The target audience of the book is researchers, teachers, andadvanced students engaged in landscape and urban studies with a prevalent focus on theory. The book can also benefit professional and institutional audiences looking for ethical/methodological orientation.

D65
“Hologramatic Patterns: an experimental taxonomy” p. II-VI

Author: Elisa C. Cattaneo
Editor:  Elisa C. Cattaneo, Davide Biselli, Caterina Cotardo
Graphics: Andrea Branzi, Juliet Kepes Stone, Imre Kepes Mass
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Language: English
Dimensions:  24 x 18 cm
Pages: 84
Argument: Books
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Place of publication: Milan
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978-8891622440

Sensorial Landscape. Natural Patterns / Ecological Taxonomy

This published research represents the third experiment on the theme of technonature, documenting the educational experience conducted at the Politecnico di Milano during the Landscape Design course in the 2016-2017 academic year. Continuing from the preceding experiment published in "Nature through the Mirror" (Cattaneo, 2016), and the international workshop "Landscape in Art and Science," this research adheres to the same conceptual principles. It further intensifies the level of experimentation, transitioning from the visible (the movement of nature) to the representation of the invisible (its sound). This shift implies not so much a diversification of content, but rather brings broader considerations into play, such as a radical departure from exact/visible systems; the paradox of representing a space without a body; and the possibility of moving from a syntactic space to an immersive one. Particularly, it acknowledges the necessity to redefine a new approach to urban design based on the principles of Landscape Ecology as a research platform and new taxonomic field. Echoing the figurations and exercises of Gerorgy Kepes at M.I.T., the experiment does not occur between the unstable dynamics of the contemporary city and those of nature, according to a process of resemblance. Rather, it attempts a precise substitution of disciplines and, in this direction, functions like the table of Borges as defined by Foucault: it seeks to alter the table of knowledge, capable of experimenting, within the limits of an educational course, another plane of understanding and conceptualizing urban design.

D64
“Weakcity. Diseno del paisaje y experimentos tecnonaturales” pp. 471-472

Authors: Felipe Vera, Constanza Larach
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Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback & E-book
Pages: 726
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Place of publication: Santiago
Publisher: RoutlMetales Pesados
Year of publication: 2017
ISBN: 978 956 984 3471

Link:
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Diálogos impostergables: XX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, 2017 : diálogos impostergables, identidad y futuro

No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings. The climate crisis encompasses a broad register of "symptoms" – increased global temperatures and sea-level rise, droughts and extreme bushfire events, salinification and desertification of fertile land, and the list goes on. It reveals and amplifies complex causal relationships that are inherently present and traverse scales, sectors and communities divulging a range of impacts and inequalities. This publication asks designers and academic practitioners to describe their own work through an ecological lens, and then to articulate design approaches for developing new practices in landscape architecture teaching.
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Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures, the Landscape Architecture Design Studio Companion, serves as a resource for academic practitioners in the preparation and delivery of "design-research studios" and students seeking guidance for design methodologies as a part of their landscape architectural education. It draws on the manifold issues of the climate crisis as a set of drivers to examine the utilisation of a range of innovative design approaches to address the current and future priorities of the discipline.
‍
The landscape architecture discipline is evolving rapidly to respond to both a broadening and intensification of changes in the environmental, social and political conditions. These changing conditions require innovation that extend the core competencies of landscape architects. This book addresses two fundamental questions – what are the design competencies required of landscape architects to equip them to deal with the complexities brought forth by contemporary society, and as a result, how could we design the future design studio?

D55
“Landscape Urbanism” pp. 357-365
M. Ricci, A. Ramirez, C. Waldheim

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0715

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Milano Capitale del Moderno

L'architettura moderna si è articolata in centri specifici di propulsione, revisione e critica durante il XX secolo. Il caso di Milano è esemplare: Terragni e il Razionalismo, la ricostruzione (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, ecc.), la Tendenza di Rossi, il design di prodotto, fino alla ricerca attuale. MCM traccia questa storia dal punto di vista di diversi contributori.

MCM – Milano Capitale del Moderno, a cura di Lorenzo Degli Esposti, è composto da testi e immagini di oltre 300 contributori provenienti da Europa e Stati Uniti, di tre generazioni, coinvolti nelle attività del Padiglione Architettura all'EXPO Belle Arti di Vittorio Sgarbi, un programma della Regione Lombardia ospitato nel Grattacielo Pirelli durante l'EXPO 2015. Essi indagano le relazioni tra l'architettura moderna, la città di Milano (Razionalismo, ricostruzione, Tendenza, Design Radicale, fino alla ricerca attuale) e la città in generale, tra opere singole e specifiche e la grande scala del territorio urbano, nelle contraddizioni tra autonomia dell'architettura e la sua dipendenza da luogo specifico e tempo storico.

L'idea di MCM è che ogni capitale del Moderno porti una versione originale della modernità in architettura: nel caso specifico milanese, questo tipo di Moderno è caratterizzato dalla presenza simultanea di caratteristiche astratte, sistematiche e sintattiche e da una concezione ontologica sia degli edifici che dei vuoti architettonici e urbani.

D52
“Terraviva” pp. 222
S. Anderloni, E. Bolla, R. Ingersoll, S. Lardera, S. Galateo

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: English
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0708

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Milan Capital of the Modern

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century. The case of Milan is exemplary: Terragni and Razionalismo, the reconstruction (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, etc.), the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors’ points of view.
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MCM – Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time.
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The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.

D63
Waiting Places.
Weak Strategies in Space of Displacement

Authors: Francesca De Ponte, Sara Parrinello, Ginevra Rapisardi
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978 889 162 4987

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D62
Serp I Molot.
Underground Utopia

Authors: Eugenia Bolla, Stefano Lardera
         Elisa C. Cattaneo
Cover: Siena Scarff Design
Illustratore: S. Hennekam
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 162
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2017
ISBN: 978 889 162 4970

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D61
Sao Paulo cidade das artes.
Inhabiting the Limit Through Popular Art

Authors: Matilde Valagussa, Laura Zura Puntaroni
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978 889 162 4994

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What does it mean to speak of limits in architectural practice? Are there only tangible limits, physical – and therefore visible – or also other types of boundaries and barriers? Can a building – and so architecture – work without limits in the urban context of the contemporary megalopolis? The following work moves from historical and critical considerations related to the face and form of the city drawn from a study of its evolution and an investigation of the connection between politics and polis – so between territory and architecture. The landing point of the theoretical research and then starting point of the practical study is the idea of the megalopolis as a scenario of changing borders, visible and not dictated by the implementation of different land use policies. Can architecture act – in such a challenging environment – working without limits and barriers? Is it possible to make a building that identifies a community without social exclusions? The initial part of the study deals with visible and invisible boundaries of the city. Starting from a historical-political approach these are analysed in all their forms, including in the study even those boundaries that are imperceptible and that divide the healthy city from the one of everyday despair - those borders that end up becoming mental borders, causing dramatic “exclusion” of the marginalized and the unwanted as a consequence. In the central part of the research, architectural theory is outlined in the specific case of the city of São Paulo, chosen as an exemplary city for the theme of limits and boundaries, visible and not. In the field of urban studies and regional policies, the research deals with the issue of urban planning from the point of view of the practical social outcomes that they effect on the territory. The scientific result is a critical paper primarily regarding the urban scale which, through a historical overview of the various plans and regulations, presents and studies the close relationship between urban policy and social and regional inequalities: the concept of limits, visible or not, developed in parallel to the megalopolis of São Paulo. At the architectural scale, the final result is a collection of critical papers that give depth to the individual case studies examined horizontally, from the point of view of limits and boundaries, together with a collection of interviews on the topic. This scientific content is then applied to the specific design case, providing a decisive tool in approaching a real problem. The central area of São Paulo was chosen as the highest expression of the problems found in the city, which suffers from its own size and from the dispersion that results in a more than evident lack of a “point of connection”, which would allow the so-called reduction omnium ad unum, i.e. the possibility of relating each centrifugal element to a central and basic nucleus and thus being capable of generating and creating points of contact and harmony. The solution proposed offers a big expansive socio-cultural centre, which has as its “plaza” – as main street – the Anhangabaù Valley, the centre and the historical memory of the different stages of development of the megalopolis itself. Through the research experience popular art has been identifyed as a potential instrument for revitalization - the core point of the project, as well as a common thread of the urban regeneration of the city centre. instrument for revitalization - the core point of the project, as well as a common thread of the urban regeneration of the city centre.

D60
Dealing with the existence.
Manifesto degli oggetti dell'abbandono in Sardegna

Authors: Valeria Scucchi
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 130
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2017
ISBN: 978 889 162 4109

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L'abbandono è un fenomeno architettonico del presente che domina il paesaggio costruito italiano, sopravvivendo nella dimensione di una memoria collettiva. La convinzione che sta alla base di questa ricerca è che le fabbriche dell'Abbandono possano essere strumento di attivazione di processi spontanei sulla città e sul territorio, riuscendo, con il loro fascino e la loro attualità, a riattivare e riqualificare intere aree urbane. Frutto di questa ricerca è la redazione di un Atlante dell'Abbandono e di un suo Manifesto, nel quale il fenomeno è analizzato nel suo significato simbolico e nelle sue ragioni, al fine di delineare un modus operandi, da usare come filtro ogni qualvolta ci si debba avvicinare e rapportare ad esso.

D59
Taesting Urban Landscape
Food as Tool to Rethink the City

Authors: Eugenia Bolla, Stefano Lardera
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Language: English
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 174
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Place of publication: Santarcangelo di Romagna
Publisher: Maggioli Editore
Year of publication: 2017
ISBN: 978 889 162 0910

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The massive increase of human population has reached astonishing numbers and its pace of growth seems to have no intention to slow down, continuing to enlarge the billionaire list. The coming decades will bring further profound changes to the size and spatial distribution of the global population, contributing to the concentration of masses in urban contexts. This enormous process of urbanisation is accused of being the largest anthropogenic factor influencing climate change: city and environment then have to be seen as two sides of the same coin. Needless to say, the effects of unreasonable human consumption patterns are not only compromising the future availability of natural resources, but also putting at risk mankind’s capacity to grow food. Far from giving the right answer to such a concerning issue, cities grew largely and inefficiently.  However, the leftovers of this “out of control growth” have paradoxically provided them with all the necessary elements to start rethinking the urban landscape deliberately with food needs in mind. The work presented in this book outlines the principles of Urban Agripuncture, a strategy that aims to intervene punctually inside metropolitan contexts in order to reactivate specific areas, using agriculture as the main rehabilitation device. The paradigm of recycling sets the guidelines to approach the recovery of the urban fabric through the revitalisation of abandoned and underused spaces, not only aesthetically but also with an ecological and productive perspective. Eugenia Bolla Graduated in architecture with a special mention at the National University of Rosario (Argentina), she took her master’s degree with honours at Politecnico di Milano, presenting the thesis entitled “Tæsting Urban Landscapes - Food as a Tool to Rethink the City”. Particularly interested in the academic world, she became teaching assistant at the FAPyD and she took part of the scientific coordination and organisation team of Terra Viva Workshops directed by Richard Ingersoll and Elisa C. Cattaneo. She collaborated at the office of Nicolas Campodonico and worked for Duncan Lewis - Scape Architecture. Stefano Lardera Teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano, he graduated with honours in Architecture in April 2016 presenting the thesis entitled “Tæsting Urban Landscapes - Food as a Tool to Rethink the City”. Together with Richard Ingersoll and Elisa C. Cattaneo, he took part of the scientific coordination and organisation team of Terra Viva Workshops, a series of courses supported by Politecnico di Milano devoted to address the relationship between food, agriculture and architecture. He has been recently working in the United Arab Emirates, developing innovative residential projects in Masdar City.

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“City and Landscape Roundtable” pp. 376-379
M. Agnoletto, C. Berizzi, N. Privileggio, A. Rocca, N. Russi

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: English
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0708

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Milan Capital of the Modern

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century. The case of Milan is exemplary: Terragni and Razionalismo, the reconstruction (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, etc.), the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors’ points of view.
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MCM – Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time.
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The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.

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“Tavola rotonda città paesaggio” pp. 376-379
M. Agnoletto, C. Berizzi, N. Privileggio, A. Rocca, N. Russi

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0715

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Milano Capitale del Moderno

L'architettura moderna si è articolata in centri specifici di propulsione, revisione e critica durante il XX secolo. Il caso di Milano è esemplare: Terragni e il Razionalismo, la ricostruzione (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, ecc.), la Tendenza di Rossi, il design di prodotto, fino alla ricerca attuale. MCM traccia questa storia dal punto di vista di diversi contributori.

MCM – Milano Capitale del Moderno, a cura di Lorenzo Degli Esposti, è composto da testi e immagini di oltre 300 contributori provenienti da Europa e Stati Uniti, di tre generazioni, coinvolti nelle attività del Padiglione Architettura all'EXPO Belle Arti di Vittorio Sgarbi, un programma della Regione Lombardia ospitato nel Grattacielo Pirelli durante l'EXPO 2015. Essi indagano le relazioni tra l'architettura moderna, la città di Milano (Razionalismo, ricostruzione, Tendenza, Design Radicale, fino alla ricerca attuale) e la città in generale, tra opere singole e specifiche e la grande scala del territorio urbano, nelle contraddizioni tra autonomia dell'architettura e la sua dipendenza da luogo specifico e tempo storico.

L'idea di MCM è che ogni capitale del Moderno porti una versione originale della modernità in architettura: nel caso specifico milanese, questo tipo di Moderno è caratterizzato dalla presenza simultanea di caratteristiche astratte, sistematiche e sintattiche e da una concezione ontologica sia degli edifici che dei vuoti architettonici e urbani.

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“Landscape Urbanism” pp. 357-365
M. Ricci, A. Ramirez, C. Waldheim

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: English
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0708

Link:
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Milan Capital of the Modern

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century. The case of Milan is exemplary: Terragni and Razionalismo, the reconstruction (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, etc.), the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors’ points of view.
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MCM – Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time.
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The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.

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‍“Space, Place, Context, Landscape” pp. 355-356

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: English
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0708

Link:
actar.com
dearchitetti.it
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Milan Capital of the Modern

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century. The case of Milan is exemplary: Terragni and Razionalismo, the reconstruction (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, etc.), the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors’ points of view.
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MCM – Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time.
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The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.

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“Spazio, Luogo, Contesto, Landscape” pp. 355-356

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0715

Link:
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Milano Capitale del Moderno

L'architettura moderna si è articolata in centri specifici di propulsione, revisione e critica durante il XX secolo. Il caso di Milano è esemplare: Terragni e il Razionalismo, la ricostruzione (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, ecc.), la Tendenza di Rossi, il design di prodotto, fino alla ricerca attuale. MCM traccia questa storia dal punto di vista di diversi contributori.

MCM – Milano Capitale del Moderno, a cura di Lorenzo Degli Esposti, è composto da testi e immagini di oltre 300 contributori provenienti da Europa e Stati Uniti, di tre generazioni, coinvolti nelle attività del Padiglione Architettura all'EXPO Belle Arti di Vittorio Sgarbi, un programma della Regione Lombardia ospitato nel Grattacielo Pirelli durante l'EXPO 2015. Essi indagano le relazioni tra l'architettura moderna, la città di Milano (Razionalismo, ricostruzione, Tendenza, Design Radicale, fino alla ricerca attuale) e la città in generale, tra opere singole e specifiche e la grande scala del territorio urbano, nelle contraddizioni tra autonomia dell'architettura e la sua dipendenza da luogo specifico e tempo storico.

L'idea di MCM è che ogni capitale del Moderno porti una versione originale della modernità in architettura: nel caso specifico milanese, questo tipo di Moderno è caratterizzato dalla presenza simultanea di caratteristiche astratte, sistematiche e sintattiche e da una concezione ontologica sia degli edifici che dei vuoti architettonici e urbani.

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“Terraviva” pp. 222
S. Anderloni, E. Bolla, R. Ingersoll, S. Lardera, S. Galateo

Author : Lorenzo Degli Esposti
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Language: Italian
Dimensions: 21 x 30 cm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: Color
Pages: 608
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Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Year of publication: 2018
ISBN: 978 194 515 0715

Link:
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dearchitetti.it
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Milano Capitale del Moderno

L'architettura moderna si è articolata in centri specifici di propulsione, revisione e critica durante il XX secolo. Il caso di Milano è esemplare: Terragni e il Razionalismo, la ricostruzione (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò, ecc.), la Tendenza di Rossi, il design di prodotto, fino alla ricerca attuale. MCM traccia questa storia dal punto di vista di diversi contributori.

MCM – Milano Capitale del Moderno, a cura di Lorenzo Degli Esposti, è composto da testi e immagini di oltre 300 contributori provenienti da Europa e Stati Uniti, di tre generazioni, coinvolti nelle attività del Padiglione Architettura all'EXPO Belle Arti di Vittorio Sgarbi, un programma della Regione Lombardia ospitato nel Grattacielo Pirelli durante l'EXPO 2015. Essi indagano le relazioni tra l'architettura moderna, la città di Milano (Razionalismo, ricostruzione, Tendenza, Design Radicale, fino alla ricerca attuale) e la città in generale, tra opere singole e specifiche e la grande scala del territorio urbano, nelle contraddizioni tra autonomia dell'architettura e la sua dipendenza da luogo specifico e tempo storico.

L'idea di MCM è che ogni capitale del Moderno porti una versione originale della modernità in architettura: nel caso specifico milanese, questo tipo di Moderno è caratterizzato dalla presenza simultanea di caratteristiche astratte, sistematiche e sintattiche e da una concezione ontologica sia degli edifici che dei vuoti architettonici e urbani.

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“Neo-Baroque Undergound" pp. 78-87

Author : Alberto Bertagna, Sara Marini
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Language: English
Dimensions: 11 x 15 cm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Place of publication: Venice
Publisher: Bruno Publisher
Year of publication: 2016
ISBN: 978 889 905 8128

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The dark side of the city

A history of the hidden and the forbidden in the urban landscape, born out of a research project conducted on Genoa's night life.
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What happens when the music's over? What happens when the lights turn off? What happens when the lights turn elsewhere? This is the story of what you do not want to see. This is the story of what you do not want to watch. This is the story of what you do not want to know. This is the story of the hidden, this is the story of the forbidden. This is the story of the unspoken, the inscrutable, the unsearchable, the unfathomable, the impenetrable. This is the story of empty, void, vacant, shallow, vacuous, frothy, null, insignificant, pointless, vain, invalid, disabled, bereaved, bereft, destitute, blank, emptiness, gap, rifle, dump, deplete. This is the story of a city, this is also the story of all cities. This is the story of the Dark Side of All of Us.