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Modern and Site Specific: The Architecture of Gino Valle: 1946–2003 - Hardcover

Croset, Pierre-Alain; Skansi, Luka

 
9781848222779: Modern and Site Specific: The Architecture of Gino Valle: 1946–2003
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848222777 ISBN 13: 9781848222779
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Since the early buildings in the 1950s at Udine in Friuli, Gino Valle has been recognised by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. His artistic talent, associated with a great intellectual curiosity and with a genuine passion for the experimentation of new construction systems, led Valle to develop an architectural work resolutely open and multiform. Whether in the smaller towns of Friuli and Veneto or in metropolitan centres as New York, Paris or Berlin, Valle realised a wide range of important works: social housing and banks, factories and offices, town halls and courthouses. These buildings make valuable contributions to debates concerning the relationship between new architecture and historic surroundings, between industrial and open landscape, between urban design and architectural intervention. A very large part of his work was dedicated to typically "modern" working spaces – factories and office buildings – in response to clients firstly regional and national (the industries Zanussi, Fantoni, Olivetti), and subsequently international and multinational (the IBM, the Banca Commerciale Italiana, the Deutsche Bank). This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to the complete work of Gino Valle.

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About the Authors

Pierre-Alain Croset is professor for architecture at Milan Polytechnic. He has been Dean of Architecture at the Technical University of Graz (Austria) and at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou (China). He has published many critical essays on contemporary architecture, and curated exhibitions on Valle, Aalto, Cattaneo, Scarpa and Siza.

Luka Skansi is an assistant professor in architectural history at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He has also written essays, curated exhibitions and participated in the 2014 Venice Biennale.

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Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848222777
ISBN 13 
9781848222779
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
352