Main entry:

Croset, Pierre-Alain, author.

Title & Author:

Modern and site specific : the architecture of Gino Valle, 1946-2003 / Pierre-Alain Croset and Luka Skansi.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2018.

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This is a revised and abbreviated version of the Author's previous book, Gino Valle, published in Italian by Electa Architettura in 2010 and again in 2014"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modernity of Gino Valle: craft, landscape and architecture as testimony -- Formative experiences and early works (1946-51) -- Return from Harvard (1951-58) -- A contextual Brutalism (1953-61) -- From the Zanussi Offices to "non-architecture" (1957-70) -- Monument to the resistance and foundation architecture (1959-67) -- A first synthesis (1961-78) -- Large building complexes (1967-82) -- Industrial objects and pictorial gestures : towards an architecture of pure relationships (1972-96) -- Low-cost housing (1975-95) -- Reusing, restoring, restructuring: architecture as brand (1977-99) -- Constructing "pieces of city" (1983-2003) -- Urban design and public buildings (1984-2003) -- Complex volumes and blocks: office buildings (1985-2003) -- The architect of major urban transformations (1991-2003).
Translated from the Italian.
Revision of: Croset, Pierre-Alain. Gino Valle. Milano : Electa architettura, 2010 (OCoLC)681706358

Summary:

"Since the early buildings in the 1950s at Udine in Friuli, north east Italy, Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. His artistic talent, associated with a great intellectual curiosity and a genuine passion for the experimentation of new construction systems, led Valle to develop an architectural work resolutely open and multiform. Whether in the smaller towns of Friuli and Veneto or in international metropolitan centres such as New York, Paris or Berlin, Valle realized a wide range of important works from social housing to banks, factories, offices, town halls and courthouses. These buildings make valuable contributions to debates about the relationship between new architecture and historic surroundings, between industrial and open landscape, urban design and architectural intervention."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781848222779 (hbk.)
1848222777

Subject:

Valle, Gino, 1923-2003 Criticism and interpretation.
Valle, Gino Criticism and interpretation.
Valle, Gino, 1923-2003.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Skansi, Luka, 1973- author.
Valle, Gino, 1923-2003. Works. Selections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304820
Call No.: BIB 250536
Status: Available