New Italian Architecture

160 colour and b/w illustrations

This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary Italian architecture by analyzing the works of the most interesting young architects and photographers: an opportunity to reflect on the new Italian landscape through the works of those who are designing it firsthand and are interpreting it through the camera lens.

Through the writings and works of the ten architects (ABDR, Aldo Aymonino, Carmen Andriani, Stefano Boeri, Giuseppe Ciorra, Alberto Ferlenga, Mosè Ricci, Renato Rizzi, Mirko Zardini and Cino Zucchi) it is thus possible to reconstruct the complex panorama of a different way of practicing architecture in Italy: each architect is identified through a key theme and a selection of texts that provide an introduction to the research and works produced in recent years, then three of the most significant projects are presented from the creative phases to final construction.

The works presented, in many cases unpublished or just completed, examine design applied to new types of construction, as in the case of the redesign of power stations (Boeri), or forms of experimentation applied to such traditional categories as the city squares designed for the suburbs of Rome (Aymonino), new residential complexes in Venice (Zucchi), Portoferraio (ADBR) and Senigallia (Ciorra), university campuses (Venice, ADBR and Ciorra) and museums (Ricci and Spaini, Zardini and Aymonino).

At the same time the works of ten Italian photographers on landscape and architecture are presented, from the better known Olivo Barbieri and Vincenzo Castella, to the emerging Paola De Petri, Francesco Jodice and Paola Di Bello.

An original comparison between architecture and photography and, at the same time, an interesting stimulus to reflect on the contemporary Italian scene.