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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Croset, Pierre-Alain, author.
• Skansi, Luka, 1973- author.

Language:

• English
• Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

Since the early buildings in the 1950s at Udine in Friuli, 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 with 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 metropolitan centres as New York, Paris or Berlin, Valle realized a wide range of important works: social housing and banks, factories and offices, town halls and courthouses. These buildings make valuable contributions to debates concerning the relationship between new architecture and historic surroundings, between industrial and open landscape, between urban design and architectural intervention.

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.

Contains:

Valle, Gino, 1923-2003. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

• 9781848222779
• 1848222777

OCLC:

1064549555