Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the "Bruno Zevi Foundat
Every building-and every architect-has a tale. Bringing these tales together, determining where they overlap, may give us "telling" urban tales. What can be told is what has the right to remain, to av
Why black is more and more the new black? This issue of Viceversa investigates the gap between the huge mass of dark proposals in the recent architectural production and the lack of theoretical positi
A logbook that in 40 days covers over 50,000km across 3 continents and 14 countries, visiting 20 cities and more than 300 buildings. A tale around the planisphere to discover the architecture designed
Graph*it is Lettera Ventidue's new series dedicated to graphic design in Italy. Small, monographic books that recount the work of the best contemporary graphic studios from around the country. The su
Man has always exploited and tamed animals, and has built simple enclosures or more complex buildings for them. Through the shapes, materials and di erent approach of their designers, this book shows
Several Italian architects have recently taken up the technique of collage again to present their ideas. The three masters of this tendency are Carmelo Baglivo, Luca Galofaro and Beniamino Servino, wh
Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legi
Designed by Louis I. Kahn in Ahmedabad between 1962 and 1974, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is considered to be one of his mature works and one of the most monumental buildings he conceived
This is a text born out of defiance. Often, architecture books that are conceived in universities and that collate the results of this or that lecturer's teachings do not succeed in arousing any real
The sixteen didactic exhibitions illustrated in this book are a meditation on display, a design workshop's nal exercise. Installing a display is an acceleration of the ongoing labour of architecture
Ten years after the strip park's construction, INWALKABOUTCITY 2.0 accurately describes an inventory of tools for architecture, reassembling the fragments of the original book in a new perspective."Ti
Between 1978 and 1984, an acceleration occurred in Adolfo Natalini's personal development narrated in the book "Figures of Stone": the intertwining of his early direct experiences on the building site
Curzio Malaparte's house in Capri is the core of a dense, illustrated narration - a pretext for generating a thousand other architectures. By uctuating between truth, interpretation and fabrication,
Projects with different levels of intervention are producing changes in two of America's Rust-Belt cities; the steel city of Pittsburgh and the iconic motor city of Detroit. Architecture is determinin
This book opens many questions. Can architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged
