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Collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new
decentred history of global modernism in architecture Over 100
black and white illustrations Contributions from the US, UK, Europe
and Australia
Collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new
decentred history of global modernism in architecture Over 100
black and white illustrations Contributions from the US, UK, Europe
and Australia
Catalogue of the TECHNOSCAPE exhibition, which will be held at
MAXXI in Autumn 2022, focusing on the relationship between artistic
and scientific disciplines, nowadays closer than ever, and the
consequent contacts between technique, creativity and social
awareness. Architecture, engineering and science have overlapped on
numerous occasions during the 20th century. First in the heroic
phase and then in the mature phase of the reinforced concrete, then
with the affirmation of hi-tech construction methods in the 1970s
and 1980s and finally with the eruption of digitally controlled
technologies. TECHNOSCAPE explores this alliance, responding to
MAXXI's mission to look towards the future of our planet and the
disciplines that modify its spaces. The volume follows the dual
register of the exhibition, first dealing with how technology is
making architecture, urban planning and other related disciplines
more aware of their technical and scientific responsibility and
capable of opening up new lines of research. The focus shifts then
to structural engineering, comparing current masterpieces with
previous historical modernist examples.
In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from
Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced
large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois
elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid
industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were
eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts.
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 surveys this expansion,
focusing on six capital cities-Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro,
Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima-as it examines
sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture,
photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from
the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints,
and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now,
this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas,
plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel
transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more.
It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the
monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s,
provided fertile ground for the emergence of today's Latin American
megalapolis.
This reprint of the notebook Album Punjab Simla. Chandigarh, Mars
1951 kept by Le Corbusier from his two-week visit in the area that
would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state
of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal
reflections as well as notes and schematic solutions elaborated
during meetings. The Album Punjab constitutes a primary source for
reconstructing the topics addressed by the small team of architects
and governmental officials who in only a few days developed the
outlines of the Chandigarh plan. The spiralbound notebook facsimile
is accompanied by a paperback volume featuring previously
unpublished photographs taken by Le Corbusier’s cousin Pierre
Jeanneret during this early expedition. Jeanneret documented the
landscape and people that the architects encountered upon their
arrival – a scenario destined to totally change with the birth of
the great city. A detailed commentary by architectural historian
Maristella Casciato is also included. It reflects on the variety of
topics assem- bled in the notebook and traces the story of these
days in which the new capital city was planned.
Gio Ponti - architect, designer, art director, writer, poet,
professor, and critic - was one of the most renowned protagonists
of Italian architecture and design in the 20th century. Forty years
after his death, the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
(MAXXI) in Rome is dedicating a major retrospective to this
exceptional figure. Beginning with his architecture, which can be
charaterised as a unique and original synthesis of tradition and
modernity, history and design, elite culture and everyday life, the
show explores his many-faceted talent, selecting projects that
concretely illustrate the key concepts found throughout his
architecture and design work. Included here are archival materials,
models, photographs, books, magazines and objects which illustrate
the many achievements of his six decade career. Contents: 1 -
Introductions by: Paolo Rosselli, Giovanna Melandri, Margherita
Guccione; 2 - Essays by: Anna Chiara Cimoli, Salvatore Licitra,
Massimiliano Savorra, Maria Teresa Feraboli, Luigi Spinelli,
Francesca Zanella, Stefania Mornati, Paolo Campiglio, Silvia
Bignami, Alessandra Muntoni, Elena Tinacci, Fabio Mangone, Alberto
Gavazzi, Filippo De Pieri, Jorge Rivas, Anat Falbel, Angelica
Ponzio, Hannia Gòmez, Fulvio Irace, Manolo De Giorgi, Valentina
Marchetti, Bernard Colenbrander, Farhan Karim, Sergio Pace,
Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Rèjean Legault, Domitilla Dardi,
Fabio Colonnese, Elena Dellapiana, Barry Bergdoll, Lucia Miodini,
Giorgio Ciucci, Daria Ricchi, Giovanni Marzari, Manuela Leoni,
Cecilia Rostagni, Roberto Dulio; 3 - Biography; 4 - Bibliography.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museo nazionale delle
arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) in Rome from 7 November 2019 - 26 April
2020.
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