Main entry:

Branzi, Andrea.

Title & Author:

Weak and diffuse modernity : the world of projects at the beginning of the 21st century / Andrea Branzi.

Publication:

Milan, Italy : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli, ©2006.

Description:

180 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
"Architecture essays."
Italian ed. also avail. (see our card no. 06004075, ISBN 88-7624-650-9).
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : for a non-figurative architecture -- A strong century -- Architectural link -- Fuzzy thinking -- Liquid modernity -- The genetic metropolis -- The man without quantities -- Elastic classicism -- Minimalist politics -- The economy of innovation -- Master plan for eindhoven -- New forms of enterprise -- From brand to buzz -- Transitory enterprise and the social state -- Business art -- Urban dismissal -- Cities without architecture -- No-stop city -- Residential and commercial center, San Donato Milanese -- Time and network -- New York waterfront : architecture as new territories -- "La Certosa" real estate complex, Sesto Fiorentino -- Master plan Tokyo city X -- Domus Academy master's -- incubators -- The sensorial revolution -- Tokyo forum -- Architecture and agriculture -- Focus commercial center, Munich -- Osaka pavilion -- Models of weak urbanization -- Agronica : weak urbanization -- Domus Academy Master's : flexyroad, reversible infrastructures -- Monumental cemetery of Carpi, Modena -- Parco di Fossoli of Carpi, Modena : architecture/agriculture -- Competition for Fiabilandia theme park, Rimini -- Domus Academy Master's : agropolis -- Cemetery of Sesto Fiorentino, Florence -- Porta Nuova Gardens : Virgilian Park, Milan -- Glass garden -- City and music -- Ghent : a sonorous sponge.

Summary:

"This book proposes two goals: to analyze the innovations that the twenty-first century is introducing to the world of design, to the passage from the strong and concentrated modernity of the twentieth century to the weak and diffuse current one, and to investigate whether there is, in this passage, the possibility of imagining a future for non-figurative architecture." "This is a long essay comprising a decade of reflections and designs, in an attempt to reconcile conceptual reflections on architecture and the contemporary city, with a constant inclination towards a vision for the future. With this text, Andrea Branzi gives us a courageous act of faith and optimism towards an architecture that is still capable of listening to the city's heart, while at the same time giving never-before-seen answers for the future of living together."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

8876246517 (pbk.)
9788876246517 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architectural design.
Visionary architecture.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecture visionnaire.
visionary architecture.
Architecture, Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248878
Call No.: BIB 178441
Status: Available