Title & Author:

Technoscape : the architecture of engineers / edited by Maristella Casciato, Pippo Ciorra ; translations: Matteo Bugiolacchi, Eugénie Antoinette Goedheeer, Valentina Moriconi.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Florence, Italy : Forma ; Rome : MAXXI, september 2022.
©2022

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"September 2022"
Catalog of an exhibition held at the MAXXI, Rome, Italy, October 1, 2022-April 10, 2023.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Giovanna Melandri -- Technoscape. the architecture of engineers -- Total engineering or the art of constructing / Maristella Casciato -- The subconscious of architecture / Pippo Ciorra -- Exhibiting structure at MOMA 1932-1994 / Barry Bergdoll -- Can structural engineering still invent the future? / Antoine Picon -- Engineers of the occupation / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Deep decoration as structural holism / Nina Rappaport -- The twentieth-century Italian school of engineering : between nature and technique / Tullia Ioria -- Turin : an engineering city / Cristiana Chiorino and Mario Alberto Chiorino -- Nothing escapes technology. concrete works its "magic" under the logic of desarrollismo / Patricio del Real -- Women engineers in Brazil : at the crossroads of feminism and femininity / Anat Falbel -- Engineering lightness / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Light as cloud / Seng Kuan -- Patenting arrangement / José Aragüez -- The pavilion paradox : container or content? / Luca Di Lorenzo Latini -- Plasticities : architects and the promise of material genius / Lucia Allais -- Maillart's concrete / Sarah Nichols -- Model prolegomena / Guy Nordenson -- Reading between the lines : the language of structural engineers / Gina Morrow -- Schools and research centers -- ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich), TUDELFT (Delft University of Technology) : KnitNervi -- IUSS -- Eucentre Pavia : a world of risks or a world at risk? -- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), SA+P (School of Architecture + Planning), MIT Media Lab -- Space Exploration Intitiative : spacesuits : space architecture at human scale -- Princeton University : resilient coasts : forests and adaptation -- TU Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) : light and long-spanning vs. insulating and load-bearing -- Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien : reconfigurable streets -- Universität Stuttgart : natural fibretectonics towards bio-based and bio-inspired architecture.
Technoscape. 9788855210980 Italian ed. also avail. ()5142386

Summary:

Catalogue of the exhibition Technoscape. The Architecture of Engineers, curated by Pippo Ciorra and Maristella Casciato, hosted by MAXXI from October 2022 to April 2023, and focusing on the relationship between structural engineering, whether vernacular or avant-garde, and the invasion of technology into our operating and living spaces. The volume reflects the exhibition's double register, which, questioning the role that architecture can play in the near future, is arranged in two sections corresponding with the two great universes of technological innovation and construction engineering. Through numerous contributions resulting from the collaboration with universities and research centres, the book retraces and examines the many occasions in which architecture, engineering and science overlapped during the twentieth century: first in the heroic and then more mature phase of the diffusion of reinforced concrete, then with the affirmation of hi-tech construction methods in the 1970s and 1980s and lately with the irruption of contemporary digitally controlled technologies. The publication is enriched by an extensive photographic apparatus through which the symbolic buildings of the great structural engineers from the post-war period to the present day can be fully appreciated. -- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9788855211000 (hardcover)
8855211005 (hardcover)

Subject:

Structural engineering History Exhibitions.
Building History Exhibitions.
Buildings Exhibitions.
Architecture Exhibitions.
Construction Histoire Expositions.
Technique de la construction Histoire Expositions.
Constructions Expositions.
Architecture Expositions.
Building.
Buildings.
Structural engineering.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Casciato, Maristella, editor.
Ciorra, Pippo, editor.
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Italy), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317631
Call No.: 317631
Copy: 1
Status: Available