Brutalist Italy

ISBN: 9781739887834 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2023 Autor: Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego Editură: Fuel Publishing Tip copertă: Hardcover Număr pagini: 200 Stoc: La comandă

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Containing over 140 exclusive photographs - ranging from private homes to football stadia - across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject.


What makes Italian Brutalist buildings different to their counterparts in other countries? Containing over 140 exclusive photographs - ranging from private homes to churches and cemeteries via football stadia - across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject.

Architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (authors of Soviet Asia) have spent the past five years travelling over 20,000 kilometres documenting the monumental concrete structures of their native country.

Brutalism - with its minimalist aesthetic, favouring raw materials and structural elements over decorative design - has a complex relationship with Italian history. After World War II, Italian architects were keen to distance themselves from fascism, without rejecting the architectural modernism that had flourished during that era. They developed a form of contemporary architecture that engaged with traditional methods and materials, drawing on uncontaminated historical references. This plurality of pasts assimilated into new constructions is a recurring feature of the country's Brutalist buildings, imparting to them a unique identity.

From the imposing social housing of Le Vele di Scampia to the celestial Our Lady of Tears Sanctuary, Syracuse - Brutalist Italy collects the most compelling examples of this extraordinary architecture for the first time in a single volume.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego
Data Publicarii
2023
Editura
Fuel Publishing
Latime
21
Inaltime
16.7
Greutate
640
Tip Coperta
Hardcover
Nr Pag
200
Subtitlu
Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea
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