New Italian Architecture: Italian Landscapes Between Architecture and Photography

by Pippo Ciorra (Contributor)

"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 Calo
Alessandro Cimmino
Paola de Pietri
Paola Di Bello
Francesco Jodice

184 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000