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Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to his complete works.
List of contents
The modernity of Gino Valle: craft, landscape and architecture. Formative experiences and early works. Back from Harvard. A contextual Brutalism. From the Zanussi offices to “non-architecture”. Monument to the Resistance and foundation architecture. A first synthesis. Large building complexes. Industrial objects and pictorial gestures: an architecture of pure relationships. Low-cost housing. Reusing, restoring, restructuring: architecture as brand. Constructing “pieces of city”. Urban design and public buildings. Complex volumes and blocks: office buildings. Major urban transformations
About the author
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.
Summary
Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to his complete works.
