Vittorio Gregotti is one of the best known architects of his generation
in Italy. Beginning in the 1950s, Gregotti produced many large-scale housing
projects, supermarkets and department stores for the Italian chain La Binascente,
college campuses (including Florence, Calabria, and Palermo), as well as
graphic design for Ferrari, museum interiors, furniture, and an extensive
body of writing.
This volume presents over 110 of Gregotti's projects from his early
years with Architetti Associati, through the founding in 1974 of Gregotti
Associati, the 1986 founding of the Campo design company, and his current
work. Photographs, plans, sketches, and models are accompanied by Gregotti's
own writings, which elucidate his commitment to historicism, his concern
with the environment, and his vast polemics.
Through his leadership and participation in two important Italian
institutions the Milan Triennale and the Venice Biennale Gregotti has become
a cultural impresario and art critic. His co-editorship of the Italian
architectural magazine Casabella has had an incalculable effect on the future
generation of international architects and planners. This volume is an essential
resource on this celebrated architect, whose impact on European design and
planning, and indeed, whose worldwide renown as a social thinker and rationalist,
is truly monumental.
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