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Architecture

ISBN: HB: 9788862421584, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, August 2017
160 pp., 22x17 cm

The book looks at the residential buildings erected in Turin for the middle classes in the decades after World War II: a period marked by a remarkable urban growth in which a signi cant part of newly produced housing was aimed at social groups lookin...

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A4A Architecture for Animals

Ghisoni Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9788862421157, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2017
192 pp., 22x17 cm, illustrations throughout

This book is a concise selection of twenty buildings designed to shelter animals. While being examples of contemporary architecture they also clearly illustrate the evolution of our relationship with animals. Man has always exploited and tamed animal...

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Architecture and Light Basic Principles for Designing with Daylight

Capanni Fabio

ISBN: PB: 9788862422154, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, April 2017
80 pp., 16.5x12 cm, colour illus.

Light is the soul of space, a breath that runs through it and gives it life. It chases the shadows relentlessly in a ritual that makes the passing of time visible. Architecture is, above all else, the implementation of this ritual, which ignites the...

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Japanese Contemporary House Small Anthology of Floating Spaces

Sordelli Alice, Zanoni Elena

ISBN: PB: 9788862421591, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2017
144 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

Five essays about the contemporary Japanese house illustrated by a selection of designs by young architects. The domestic space becomes a symbol of the ability to adapt to new cultural and technological patterns. The designers provide brilliant medit...

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Dr. Corbellini's Pills Tips for Architecture Beginners

Corbellini Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9788862422086, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, January 2017
80 pp., 18x12 cm, illus

Architecture is doomed to a permanent process of reinvention, which produces constitutionally partial, transient and questionable truths. Much of its charm lies precisely in its instability, which insists we explore it and, at the same time, makes it...

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Wall as Living Place Hollow Structural Forms in Louis Kahn's Work

Cacciatore Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862422031, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, October 2016
120 pp., 21x15 cm, black&white illus.

There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenu...

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Architecture_Factory

Caruso Giuseppe, Torricella Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788862421607, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2015
192 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The Economic Crisis has refocused attention on the central nature of the real economy. Industry is once more seen as an opportunity for the future, naturally according to new patterns of production, distribution and consumption. This entails a new fa...

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Cavity and Limit

Iodice Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788862421560, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, May 2015
120 pp., 22x16.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / Italian

Cavity and limit is a book that shows a clear determination to investigate architecture through a specific area of research, that of the limit and its corrosion, of cavity. The book analyzes the built form through two different ideas of making archit...

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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture

Giustra Martina

ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.

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House Between Two Pine Trees

Gambardella Cherubino

ISBN: PB: 9788862421003, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, November 2013
120 pp., 22.6x17.3 cm, colour photos

A book about a house and a Mediterranean myth. A theory illustrated by a constellation of examples that predate and follow the white ceramic architecture between two ancient pine trees.

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