New Italian Architecture: Italian Landscapes between Architecture and Photography

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"The young Italian architects are now out of the impasse and of their unwitting ennui. Or rather, they have begun to emerge and raise their gaze from the drawing board to observe the material and non-material phenomena occurring in the outside world in the meantime. In the concrete material world of the Italian cities and landscape, sudden radical transformations have effected the whole universe to which architectural, planning and urban knowledge must be applied. While the intangible world of ideas and non-architectural artistic languages, traces and representations of these transformations have been presented for some time." (Pippo Ciorra)

Ten young Italian architects are analyzed and combined to show the most advanced researches on the contemporary Italian urban landscape.

The projects and photographs are introduced by three essays by Pippo Ciorra, Kay-Bea Jones and Francesco Jodice.

Architects
ABDR
Carmen Andriani
Aldo Aymonino
Stefano Boeri
Pippo Ciorra
Alberto Ferlenga
Ricci & Spaini
Renato Rizzi
Mirko Zardini & Lukas Meyer
Cino Zucchi

Photographers
Marina Ballo Charmet
Olivo Barbieri
Antonio Biasiucci
Botto & Bruno
Vincenzo Castella
Marco Calò
Alessandro Cimmino
Paola de Pietri
Paola Di Bello
Francesco Jodice



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"The young Italian architects are now out of the impasse and of their unwitting ennui. Or rather, they have begun to emerge and raise their gaze from the drawing board to observe the material and non-material phenomena occurring in the outside world in the meantime. In the concrete material world of the Italian cities and landscape, sudden radical transformations have effected the whole universe to which architectural, planning and urban knowledge must be applied. While the intangible world of ideas and non-architectural artistic languages, traces and representations of these transformations have been presented for some time." (Pippo Ciorra)

Ten young Italian architects are analyzed and combined to show the most advanced researches on the contemporary Italian urban landscape.

The projects and photographs are introduced by three essays by Pippo Ciorra, Kay-Bea Jones and Francesco Jodice.

Architects
ABDR
Carmen Andriani
Aldo Aymonino
Stefano Boeri
Pippo Ciorra
Alberto Ferlenga
Ricci & Spaini
Renato Rizzi
Mirko Zardini & Lukas Meyer
Cino Zucchi

Photographers
Marina Ballo Charmet
Olivo Barbieri
Antonio Biasiucci
Botto & Bruno
Vincenzo Castella
Marco Calò
Alessandro Cimmino
Paola de Pietri
Paola Di Bello
Francesco Jodice



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The volume respresents a contribution to the understanding of contemporary Italian architecture by analyzing the works of the most interesting young architects and photographers: an opportunity to reflect on the new Italian landscape through the works of those who are designing it firsthand and are interpreting it through the camera lens. Through the writings and works of the ten architects (ABDR, Aldo Aymonino, Carmen Andriani, Stefano Boeri, Giuseppe Ciorra, Alberto Ferlenga, Mosè Ricci, Renato Rizzi, Mirko Zardini and Cino Zucchi) it is thus possible to reconstruct the complex panorama of a different way of practicing architecture in Italy. At the same time the works of ten Italian photographers on landscape and architecture are presented. 160 illustrations


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