Annali di architettura (1996-8)

AA.VV.
Acanto

Cesare De Seta, Rossano Astarita
Editoriale Jaca Book

Dante Benini e il suo Studio seguono oggi una grande quantità di progetti su vasta scala in Italia e all'estero, dalla Turchia alla Russia, alla Cina. Benini esprime un'architettura all'avanguardia nell'uso dei materiali e delle risorse tecnologiche oggi disponibili, mostra una costante sensibilità per i problemi di sostenibilità energetica delle grandi strutture che progetta, con soluzioni sempre innovative e felicemente intrecciate alle coordinate fondamentali della sua ricerca formale. Quest'ultima appare veramente inesausta e multiforme, sempre dettata da un'idea di fondo che guida i progetti su vasta scala così come le realizzazioni più contenute, ma anche caratterizzata da una costante e quasi ossessiva attenzione per i dettagli che si esprime nell'accurata ricerca dei materiali e nell'inventiva profusa anche nel particolare più marginale.

Luca Molinari
Skira

Uno sguardo su oltre ottant'anni di produzione della Marzorati Ronchetti, azienda leader nelle lavorazioni dell'acciaio inox e dei metalli, specializzata in arredi d'interni per spazi di prestigio e installazioni d'arte. Dalla collaborazione con Antonio Citterio per lo showroom di De Beers a Los Angeles, a quella con Ron Arad per il duoMO Hotel a Rimini, e con Italo Rota per le sue strutture architettonico-museali.

Emilia Antonia De Vivo
ALOA

Vincenzo Pavan
Arsenale editrice

Sebastiano Brandolini
Skira

Kristian Gullichsen, Erkki Kairamo and Timo Vormala have created over the years a partnership grounded on individual differences and on a fundamental agreement on what should be and can be, today, the mission of architecture.
Each one of their executions is the description of a small adventure, as well as a familiar place, steeped in recollections and expectations. Whether it be an industrial plant, a town centre or a public housing district, located in a city centre, a suburban district or along the seashore, each design proves that to express an idea what is needed is not rhetorics but clarity.
The book ranges from the first less-known buildings of the seventies, still bound to the prefabrication theme, up to the latest projects for entire city districts having a strong urban drive, transiting through the production of the eighties, in which the classic themes of modern architecture, from Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto to Soviet constructivism, are revisited.
Sebastiano Brandolini graduated at the Architectural Association in London in 1982, and at the Milan Polytechnic in 1986. From 1983 to 1996 he was editor of the Italian magazine "Casabella." He is currently architectural correspondent of "D - La Repubblica," the only Italian popular magazine featuring architecture on a regular basis. He acts as juror of the trans-national "Alpine Architecture" competition. He writes for many specialized journals and is particularly interested in the relationship between architecture and engineering. Over the years he taught at the Milan Polytechnic, at the IUAV in Venice, and at the London School of Economics.
Since 1994 he has been running his own architectural design practice(with Monica Valdameri). Among his latest projects: the redesign of a number of Hertz position in the Milan area and a major Leisure Centre in the Milan edge-city.

Giuseppe Valentini
NED Nuove Edizioni Duomo

Konrad Wachsmann
Il Saggiatore

Renato De Fusco
Editori Laterza

Società Storica Vigevanese
Diakronia

Mario Pisani
Gius. Laterza & Figli

Donald W. Curl
Architectural History Foundation

This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. By 1925, Mizner ranked as one of the country's most prominent architects, as important in his own time as Richard Morris Hunt and Stanford White had been in theirs. The book's 150 illustrations include plans and historical photographs - many published for the first time - showing Mizner's handling of space, the relation of his houses to the landscape, and the many picturesque buildings that combined the comfort and convenience expected by his clients. Donald W. Curl is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. The Architectural History Foundation American Monograph Series.