Books
– Quodlibet publishes in Italian L’Art Décoratif d’Aujourd’hui, the book born out of Le Corbusier’s contentious desire to assert a modern vision of the objects in our everyday lives and homes.
– The winner of the seventh Bruno Zevi prize, the book by Pasqualino Solomita focuses on a narrow aspect of the work of Pier Luigi Nervi – large roofing systems, which are described as the engineer’s obsession.
– The monograph, and DVD, Notre caméra analytique analizes the work by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi through essays by the two authors themselves as well as by a series of critics and theorists who have followed their work closely for some time.
– Through a series of travel notebook of some of most eminent figures in Portuguese architecture, Circolo de Ideais proposes a journey able to define the multiple identity of places.
– Filippo Minelli’s hefty book, illustrating a research conducted by the artist since 2010, focuses on blots on the Italian landscape and reminds us that Padania – the Po valley area – really has very little that is positive to teach us.
Exhibitions
– Unlike many other retrospectives on Renzo Piano’s work, the exhibition at La Cité de l’Architecture clarifies the process leading to the realisation of his visions.
– Curated by Andrea Lissoni at HangarBicocca, the first Italian retrospective by the French artist Philippe Parreno is left to run thus, in the obscurity, for at least two full hours, in a state of vigilant expectation.
– The Eames show in Britain is not so much just a re-run 15 years on from the last exhibition. Rather, it is a possibility to reconsider the attention with which British architectural culture of the late twentieth century has observed, commented, and made its own, the work of the two American designers.
– The Triennale exhibition presents a selection of works by Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli, between 1960 and today, in which we perceive a passion and extraordinary command of the medium.
– Organised by Eva Fabbris and Cristiano Raimondi, the exhibition at Villa Paloma centres on the elective affinities that, for a happy period, coupled Fausto Melotti’s genius with that of the visionary Gio Ponti.