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Atlantis : a journey in search of beauty / Carlo & Renzo Piano ; translated from the Italian by Will Schutt.
LIBRA NA1123.P47 P5 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piano, Carlo, 1965- author.
- Piano, Renzo, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Atlantide. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Piano, Renzo.
- Architects--Biography.
- Architects.
- Fathers and sons.
- Fathers and sons--Travel.
- Architectural criticism.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2020.
- Summary:
- Renzo and Carlo travel from Genoa in search of the perfect city, along the way reflecting on their own relationship, on fathers and sons, on the idea of travel itself, and perhaps most notably on architecture, space, and the secret life of forms
- Contents:
- Macaia
- A letter from Admiral Temptation
- Reflections by the port
- The island that wasn't
- Retracing Captain Cook's route
- The ship of scientists
- The petrified forest
- The library in the stone
- The prairies of the Whitney
- Desperately seeking Renzo
- The city of the future
- A shard on the Thames
- Swamp thing
- The return of the blue angel
- Mare Nostrum
- City of music
- Stone sickness
- Gino's war
- The first time
- Eureka.
- Notes:
- Translation of Italian title: Atlantide: viaggio alla ricerca della bellezza.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1609456238
- 9781609456238
- 9781787702615
- 1787702618
- OCLC:
- 1139253796
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