| Description |
180 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Architecture essays." |
|
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architectural design.
|
|
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
|
|
Modern movement (Architecture)
|
|
Visionary architecture.
|
| LC no. |
2007270956 |
| ISBN |
8876246517 (paperback) |
|
9788876246517 (paperback) |
|
