Architecture in Photography - Softcover

Paolo Rosselli; Dennis Sharp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8884910145 ISBN 13: 9788884910141

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2001

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Dennis Sharp is an architect-and a well-known British writer and critic and exhibition curator and designer. He graduate from the AA School, London and Liverpool University. He has taught widely at Manchester, London, Columbia, New York, Adelaide, and Nottingham universities. Now a professor, International Academy of Architecture, he was Senior Lecturer and founder-editor of AA Quarterly, 1968-92, and later editor of World Architecture International Architecture. He received the medaille d'argent of the Academie d'Architecture in 1992 and a Jean Tschumi Award from the International Union of Architects in 1993. Editor and author of many books including 20th Century Architecture: A Visual History, The Modern Movement in Architecture, and monographs on Manfredi Nicoletti, Bauhaus, and Santiago Calatrava whose retrospective exhibition he curated at the RIBA in 1992. Dennis Sharp's recent architectural work includes a Visitor Centre for the Grand National, Aintree and the renovation of the first Modern thin wall concrete Modernist house in England (1934) by Colin Lucas, one of the trio Connell Ward and Lucas on whom he is preparing a major monograph.

Born in Milan in 1952, Paolo Rosselli begins taking photographs at the age of 18 after a brief apprenticeship with Ugo Mulas. After the university degree in architecture, he dedicates himself entirely to photography. In the early 1980s he accompanies art historian Arturo Schwarz on a series of extended stays in India where he photographs temple architecture.

In 1984 he initiates a study of the relationship of architecture to environment in Engadin, Switzerland, photographing buildings, landscape and scenes of daily life. Around the same time he begins contributing to the architecture quarterly Lotus International and other Italian and foreign magazines. He does photo essays on contemporary architecture in Spain, Germany, France and other countries, which in turn generate other publications, including architectural monographs and a broader range of additional city profiles.

In 1993 he is invited to the XLV Venice Biennial to participate in the exhibition "Photography and Landscape after the Avant-garde", where he shows a group of works which thematise the fragmentary messages, words and signs found in the contemporary urban landscape.

In more recent years, his major projects examine the following subjects. The architecture of the '50s and '60s in Milan-an extensive study on post-war reconstruction. An exploration of Renaissance architecture in Rome, Florence, and Milan, dedicated to the art historian Jacob Burckhardt.

In all, he is the author of a dozen books, and has shown his work throughout Italy, Europe and USA. Rosselli lives and works in Milan.

Synopsis

The book presents a selection of over 100 extraordinary shots taken by Rosselli worldwide from the early Seventies to the present to major and most impressive masterpieces of modern architecture: from the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein) by Frank Gehry to Sturgess House (Los Angeles) by Frank Lloyd Wright, from Oriente Station (Lisbon) by Santiago Calatrava to Charing Cross (London) by Terry Farell, from Carlo Felice Theatre (Genoa) by Aldo Rossi to S. Maria degli Angeli (Monte Tamaro) by Mario Botta, from the Petite Maison (Vevey) by Le Corbusier to the Congress Hall (Salamanca) by Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Rosselli's photographs are not just records of these buildings, they are more collaborations between two artists: the architect who designed the building and Roselli who is photographing it. He makes the best of the best and creates photographs that are works of art in themselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skira Editore
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8884910145
• ISBN 13: 9788884910141
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144