ISBN: 9780847804504 - vittorio gregotti (7 Ergebnisse)

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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to cover, clean pages and sound binding.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Vittorio Gregotti ? Buildings and Projects (1982) by Manfredo Tafuri , published by Rizzoli International Publications (ISBN: 084780450X ), is the kind of book that doesn?t just sit on a shelf ? it occupies it. Quietly. Confidently. Like a piece of architecture in hardback form. This copy is in Good condition as sold by Crappy Old Books , which means it?s ready to look expensive and intelligent in your room while also being genuinely useful if you actually open it. Let?s be clear: this is not a ?flick through and feel inspired? sort of architecture book. This is an ?accidentally lose an hour, emerge with opinions about modernism? sort of architecture book. It?s Gregotti , an architect associated with that serious, European, late-20th-century conviction that buildings should have ideas, and Tafuri , one of the great architectural historians/critics, who had a talent for making you feel that a façade is never just a façade ? it?s a political act, a cultural statement, and possibly a rebuttal to the entire concept of naïve optimism. The result is deliciously ironic: a book about Buildings and Projects that is also, inevitably, about everything else. Context. City. History. Power. The burden of form. The problem of pretending design is neutral. If you?ve ever thought, ?Surely a building is just a building,? Tafuri is here to gently place a hand on your shoulder and say, ?No. Absolutely not. Sit down.? Expect the good stuff: photographs, drawings, plans, that crisp Rizzoli production quality, and the sense that you are holding an artefact from a time when serious architecture publishing was a kind of cultural event ? when a monograph wasn?t just documentation, it was a statement of intent. Gregotti?s work, presented this way, feels less like a portfolio and more like a case being argued: that the built environment can be disciplined, legible, urban, and intellectually responsible, even when the world is chaotic and messy (which, in 1982, it certainly was). And yet, it?s also a perfect object for a particular kind of collector: the person who loves the look of architectural authority. Put it on the coffee table and it silently communicates: I know what a section drawing is and I?m not afraid to use it. It?s a book that can function as both reading material and a light-weight social signal ? which is fitting, because architecture itself often lives somewhere between practical shelter and symbolic performance. In Good condition, this copy has likely already done the honourable service of being consulted, admired, and possibly used to prop up a monitor at some point (which is, arguably, the highest compliment you can pay a book about buildings). Ideal for: architecture students who enjoy being simultaneously inspired and intellectually scolded designers who like their monographs heavy with meaning collectors of Rizzoli art/architecture books anyone who suspects that modern architecture is less about ?style? and more about choices that have consequences A handsome, serious book about serious work ? with Tafuri providing the kind of commentary that makes even a doorway feel like it?s taking a position. It won?t teach you to build a house. It will teach you why the house matters.…

Electa/Rizzoli, 1982. Paperback / Softcover. 24 x 22 cm. With illustrations almost all in b/w. 149 pages - [near] FINE COPY [Architecture / international [Algemene Architectuur] ].

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