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Author Finizio, Gino.

Title Architecture & mobility : tradition and innovation / Gino Finizio
Edition 1. edition
Published Milano : Skira, [2006]
©2006

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Description 295 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm
Contents Introduction -- Scenario -- Architecture and mobility -- Which urban landscape? -- Outside the centre -- The road network -- From car-as-object to car-as-service -- The virtual network -- State of the art : tradition and innovation -- The lessons of history/ the temptation of the new -- Tradition -- Innovation -- Revising the meaning of construction -- The inhabitable cell -- The ovoid object -- The bubble car -- The size problem / Luigi Formicola -- Artificial light -- Applications :transportation design, design -- Lines of evolution of vehicle architecture -- Concept ideas -- City / Riccardo Dalisi -- Personalisation / Isao Hosoe -- Inhabitabillity / Mario Bellini -- Elegance / Richard Sapper -- Sportiveness / Antonio Citterio -- Small / Michele De Lucchi -- Easy / Toshiyuki Kita -- Colour / Alessandro Mendini -- Distances / Jean Nouvel -- From car design to transportation design -- Ermanno Cressoni -- Innovative thought -- Design for innovation in enterprise -- Design around the idea -- Architectures in movement: travelling cities -- Static architectures and dynamic architectures -- Photography -- Mandra
Notes Includes architects' statements
Italian ed. also avail. (see our card no. 06014062, ISBN 88-7624-780-7)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also issued online
Translated from the Italian
Subject Architecture and society.
Architecture and technology.
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
Automobiles -- Design and construction.
City planning.
Transportation -- Planning.
LC no. 2009293143
ISBN 8861300715 (paperback)
9788861300712 (paperback)
Other Titles Architecture and mobility