24 RASSEGNA
MICROSTORIE DI ARCHITTETURA
MICROHISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]: 24 RASSEGNA: MICROSTORIE DI ARCHITTETURA/MICROHISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURE. Bologne: Editrice CIPIA, [Anno VII, 24/4 – dicembre 1985]. Text in Italian with parallel captions in English. Quarto. Plain thick wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 88 [xxvi] pp. 136 illustrations. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Wrappers lightly worn: a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 114 pages and 136 illustrations, some in color. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to Microstorie di archittetura aka Microhistories of architecture.
- Prefazione
- Agli estremi del mattone Nevada by Marc Vellay: 12 pages with 16 illustrations including 8 of the Maison de Verre by Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet
- Funghi sotto I solai by David P. Billington: 13 pages with 23 black-and-white illustrations featuring the work of Robert Maillart
- Un muro di 60, 200, 400 metri invetro by Manolo De Giorgi: 11 pages with 23 black-and-white illustrations featuring the Olivetti Technical Office originally designed by Camillo Olivetti and expanded by Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini
- Aria nuova in rue Cantagrel by Brian Brace Taylor: 12 pages with 18 black-and-white illustration featuring Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's Cite du Refuge Building
- L'imperativo del capitolato by Guido Zucconi: 14 pages with 21 black-and-white illustrations featuring Gio Ponti, Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini's Palazzo Montecatini
- Dispute attorno a un pannello y Christian Borngruber: 9 pages with 16 black-and-white images featuring the work of Ernst May in 1920s Frankfurt
- Piccole onde in ferro-cemento by Pier Luigi Nervi; 13 pages with 19 black-and-white illustrations
- Advertising section
The remarkable Maison de Verre was inserted into an existing building and is one of the unique buildings of the twentieth century... The dissolving of views through semi-transparent materials, the juxtaposing of metal and glass, 'free' space and solid add a dynamic dimension to this house which almost takes it into the realms of Surrealism." Built in the center of Paris, La Maison de Verre is neither a work which can be overlooked for it avantgarde qualities, nor as a landmark in the history of Modern Architecture.
Italian architect and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891 - 1979) was renowned for his brilliance as a structural engineer and his novel use of reinforced concrete.
Under the loose directorship of Vittorio Gregotti, Rassegna was an Italian Design magazine underwritten by six Italian firms: Ariston, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni and co., and Sabiem. Each issue was devoted to a single designer or theme and lavishly produced, with high-quality reproduction and carefully selected and presented illustrations. [rassegna 7418]