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Made in Italy : rethinking a century of Italian design
\"Goods made or designed in Italy enjoy a disproportionately high profile, even though, in terms of global manufacturing, Italy's output is relatively modest. Italy's glorious design heritage and reputation for innovation mean that goods 'Made in Italy', and/or designed in Italy, carry added value. Since 1945, Italian design has commanded an increasing amount of attention from design journalists, critics and consumers. But is Italian design a victim of its own celebrity? Made In Italy is the first critical study of Italian design to explore this question from the perspective of scholarly investigative chapters, analysing the significance of design from Italy and how its influence upon international design and consumerism has become so renowned and inflated by various media and design criticism. Using examples from a wide range of Italian design - from the designers themselves such as Gio Ponti and Andrea Branzi, to the urban landscape of the country itself, the book explores the historical, cultural and social influences that dictated design in Italy, and how these iconic designs have shaped and contributed to the modern canon of Italian inspired goods\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fault lines
Earth's fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Messina, Italy, in 1908 and in the Belice Valley, Sicily, in 1968. Following the history of these places before and after their destruction, this book explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins. These stories explore fault lines between \"rural\" and \"urban,\" \"backwardness\" and \"development,\" and \"before\" and \"after,\" shedding light on the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.
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The Monster in the Garden
Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.
InThe Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.
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UniFor : a commitment to architecture = Una vocazione per l'architettura
UniFor nasce con una vocazione specifica: il progetto di un interior landscape che interpreta e traduce in realtلa indicazioni ed esigenze dei committenti e degli architetti contemporanei. Un impegno che trasporta la tradizione artigianale della Brianza, nata dallo stretto rapporto tra industria e autore, verso una direzione globale, di allestimento organico e coordinato di spazi pubblici e privati con una propria identitلa. UniFor progetta, infatti, sistemi di arredi custom made, all'insegna di una sofisticata qualitلa. Un impegno che comporta lavoro sui materiali, sulle loro resistenze, sulle loro performativitلa estetiche, tecniche e funzionali, per produrre ambienti complessi e completi. La specializzazione nei grandi progetti, la vocazione internazionale e lo stretto rapporto di collaborazione con i piلu prestigiosi studi di architettura, caratterizzano l'attivitلa di UniFor che sin dalla sua nascita (1969) si presenta come una fabbrica-laboratorio a disposizione dei migliori talenti creativi. Attraverso l'analisi di casi studio esemplari, il libro illustra la peculiaritلa di UniFor, mettendone in risalto l'assoluta singolaritلa del metodo di lavoro. Ne ricostruisce l'identitلa attraverso alcuni momenti esemplari, dalla collaborazione con con le firme piلu prestigiose dell'architettura - come Michele De Lucchi, Foster + Partners, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Aldo Rossi, âAlvaro Siza, per citarne alcuni - alla strategia di comunicazione, con la grafica di Pierluigi Cerri come strumento di unificazione del messaggio attraverso l'immagine coordinata e il sistema espositivo (dagli showroom agli stand fieristici) che esemplifica, nella tridimensionalitلa dello spazio, i concetti dell'ordine, della misura, dell'eleganza funzionale, dell'innovazione.--Publisher.
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Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 - 1500, Carla Keyvanian reconstructs three centuries of urban history by focusing on public hospitals, state institutions that were urban expressions of sovereignty, characterized by a distinguishing architecture and built in prime urban locations.
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La Villa
Published in 1559 and appearing here for the first time in English,La Villais a rare source of Renaissance landscape theory. Written by Bartolomeo Taegio, a Milanese jurist and man of letters, after his banishment (possibly for murder, Thomas E. Beck speculates), the text takes the form of a dialogue between two gentlemen, one a proponent of the country, the other of the city. While it is not a gardening treatise,La Villareflects an aesthetic appreciation of the land in the Renaissance, reveals the symbolic and metaphorical significance of sixteenth-century gardens for their owners, and articulates a specific philosophy about the interaction of nature and culture in the garden.
This edition of the original Italian text and Beck's English translation is augmented with notes in which Beck identifies numerous references to literary sources inLa Villaand more than 280 people and places mentioned in the dialogue. The introduction illuminates Taegio's life and intellectual activity, his obligations to his sources, the cultural context, and the place ofLa Villain Renaissance villa literature. It also demonstrates the enduring relevance ofLa Villafor architecture and landscape architecture.La Villamakes a valuable contribution to the body of literature about place-making, precisely because it treats the villa as an idea and not as a building type.
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Bottega Veneta
The first monograph on the luxury house Bottega Veneta, renowned for its superb craftsmanship and understated, no-logo elegance. Bottega Veneta's illustrious history reaches back to a time when the brand was known primarily for its soft, handcrafted leather handbags. Today, the house is renowned not only for its coveted leather goods but also for a remarkable range of luxury products. Now, as then, the brand stands for the discreet sophistication and refined individuality captured in its famous line, \"When your own initials are enough.\" This beautifully designed and slipcased monograph, the first book to explore the world of Bottega Veneta, is the rich result of a collaborative effort between creative director Tomas Maier, designer Sam Shahid, and many of today's leading lights of fashion journalism. With luxury craftsmanship at its core, Bottega Veneta is an illustrative tour de force through the materials, artisanship, and extraordinary products that have made the Italian label one of the most eminent luxury goods houses. Tomas Maier's understated design sensibility, a mixture of restraint and passion, has become the hallmark of the Bottega Veneta brand. This is the ultimate volume for the true connoisseur of luxury handcraftsmanship. - Publisher.
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The monster in the garden: reframing Renaissance landscape design
Monsters, grotesque creatures and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes that has been acknowledged. In this book, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on 16th-century medical, legal and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the gardne within a broader framework of enquiry.
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