RECENT ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE
Agnoldomenico Pica
Agnoldomenico Pica: RECENT ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE. Milan: Edizioni Del Milione, 1959. First English edition [originally published as "Architettura Italiana Ultima”]. Text in English! Quarto. White wrappers printed in black. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 144 pp. 323 black and white illustrations. Textblock uniformly sunned to edges. Dust jacket worn along top edge with a closed tear at spine crown. Did I mention the text is in English? A very good copy.
7.25 x 9 softcover book with 144 pages and 323 black and white illustrations. A good pictorial survey of post-World War Two Italian architecture, including Villas, Blocks of Flats, Social Buildings, Office Buildings, Hospitals, Hotels, Exhibition Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Sport Building, Industrial Buildings, Transport Buildings, Furnishings and Interiors.
Includes work by Agnoldomenico Pica, Giovanni Michelucci, Alberto Sartoris, Bruno Munari, Pier Luigi Nervi, Bruno Zevi, Piero Bargellini, Ignazio Gardella, Alberto Sartoris, Carlo Perogalli, Enrico Freyrie, Caronia-Roberti, Salvatore Vitale, Bruno Zevi, Carlo Giulio Argan, Benedetto Croce, Carlo Mollino, Franco Vadacchino, Giusta Nicco-Fasola, Carlo L. Ragghianti, Vittorio Ziino, Luigi Moretti, Gillo Dorfles, Gio Ponti, Carlo Doglio, Giuseppe Samona, Arturo Danusso, R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Cesare Branci, Ernesto N. Rogers, Enzo Paci, Giancarlo de Carlo, Ludovico Quaroni, Ettore Sottsass, Jr., Giuseppe Ciribini, Pio Montesi, Leonardo Urbani, G. De Angeli D'Ossat, Gaetano Ciocca, Giovanni Astengo, Mario Bianco, Nello renacco, Luigi Piccinato, Renzo Sansoni, Eduardo Vittoria, Franco Albini, Luisa Castiglioni, Carlo Pagani, Riccardo Nalli, Lisa Licitra-Ponti, Enrichetta Ritter, Domenico Andriello, G. E. Kidder-Smith, Adriano Olivetti, S. Gordon Joseph, Piero Bottoni, Paolo Nestler, Marcello grisotti, Bryan Westwood, Antonio Cederna, Franco Buzzi-Ceriani, Alfred Schuler, Roberto Pane, Nikolaus Pevsner, Plinio Marconi, Franco Bettonica, Fermo Stella, Licisco Magagnato, Aldo Rossi, Hide Saito, Enrico Fea, Robert Gardner-Merwin, Lorenzo Camusso, Paolo Portoghesi, Roberto Aloi, Reyner Banham, Raffaella Crespi, Sandro De Feo, Enzo Minchilli, Piero Buscaroli, Luigi Cosenza, Pier Carlo Santini, Guido Canella, Vittorio Gregotti, Erberto Carboni, Jurgen Joedicke, Giulia Veronesi, Mart Larssom, Claudia refice, Carlo Cavallotti, Angelo Tito Anselmi, Achile Perilli, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Emilio Tadini, Karl Augustus Bieber, Sara Rossi, Francesca Tentori and Raffaello Baldini.