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Spaces of Memory

Commentaries on 21st Century Buildings

In the form of an anthology of critical texts focused on the work of a selection of contemporary architects, this volume was conceived as an occasion to raise some questions about the relationship with the past. The selected works refer to the many and etherogeneous protagonists of international architecture who have lectured within the MantovArchitettura programme, a cultural project organized by the University to foster the exploration of the relationships between Architectural Design and History.

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Pages: 380

ISBN: 9788891799432

Edition: 1^a edizione 2020

Publisher code: 70.7

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Pages: 380

ISBN: 9788835103264

Edizione:1^a edizione 2020

Publisher code: 70.7

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The sixteen essays explore the work of a selection of contemporary architects who have developed different interpretations and uses of memory: Andrew Berman, Renzo Piano, José Ignacio Linazasoro, Paolo Zermani, Alberto Campo Baeza, Guido Canali, Pierre-Louis Faloci, Philippe Prost, Elisa Valero Ramos, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Miller & Maranta, Ricardo Bak Gordon, Tabuenca & Leache, Tony Fretton, Renato Rizzi, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Álvaro Siza Vieira.
The authors are part of the scientific community running the international Master of Science at the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano; the selected works refer to the many protagonists of contemporary architecture who have lectured within the MantovArchitettura programme - a cultural project organized by the University to foster the exploration of the relationships between Architectural Design and History.

Luigi Spinelli is Professor in Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano, where he is member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. Programme of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, and coordinator of the Master of Science in Architectural Design and History at the Mantova Campus.

Luigi Spinelli, Memory Exercises
Part I. Memory and Design
Luca Cardani, Andrew Berman. Memory and Discretion
Federico Bucci, Renzo Piano. Two American Art Museums
Renata Cristina Mazzantini, José Ignacio Linazasoro. Matter and Memory of the Built Environment
Massimo Ferrari, Paolo Zermani. The Conscious Thriftiness
Emilio Faroldi, Alberto Campo Baeza. Construction as a Manifesto of Architectural Theory
Part II. Memory and Narration
Marco Borsotti, Guido Canali. The Semantic Interpretation of Displaying
Federico Bucci, Pierre-Louis Faloci. Camera Obscurae to Display "Difficult Memories"
Elisa Boeri, Philippe Prost. "L'Espace du Vivant" Between Memory and Innovation
Part III. Memory and Architecture
Luigi Spinelli, Elisa Valero Ramos. Two or Three Things I Know About Her Work
Barbara Bogoni, João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Experimenting with Permanence and Transformation
Vittorio Longheu, Quintus Miller and Paola Maranta. Morphology of the Care
Christian Campanella, Ricardo Bak Gordon. Architecture as Inhabited Space Between Past and Future
Part IV. Memory and Interpretation
Elena Montanari, Fernando Tabuenca and Jesús Leache. Palimpsestic Architecture
Angelo Lorenzi, Tony Fretton. Calculated Ambiguity
Claudia Tinazzi, Renato Rizzi. "To Be an Architect You Must Be in the Grip of an Obsession"
Barbara Bogoni, Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura: A Dialogue on Architecture and Memory
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Serie: Architectural Design and History

Subjects: Architecture: Theories and History

Level: Scholarly Research