37 RASSEGNA
BARCELONA
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [editor]: 37 RASSEGNA [BARCELONA]. Milan: CIPIA, 1989. Original edition [anno XI, 37/1 -- March 1989]. Text in English with a section of French and German translations bound in at the back of the book. A very good soft cover book with thick printed French folded wrappers and minor shelf wear including rubbing. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 122 well-illustrated pages. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to the architecture of Barcelona.
- Editorial by Vittorio Gregotti
- Towards a New Barcelona by Joan Busquets
- The 1888 Universal Expo
- The 1929 International Expo by Ignasi de Sola-Morales
- Perspectives on the Catalan Experience by Franco Mancuso: includes work by Heliou Pinon and Alberto Viaplana, Esteve Bonell and Francis Rius, Manuel de Sola-Morales, and Bernardo de Sola, Josep Maria Julia and Pedro Barragan
- Interview with Oriol Bohigas
- The Meaning of the City by Pep Subiros
- Scales of Activity by Joan Busquets: includes work by H. Torres and J.A. Martinez la Pena, Manuel de Sola-Morales, Heliou Pinon, Mir, and Alberto Viaplana, F.P. Nebot, E. Battle, J. Roig, and F. Ribas among others
- Notes for an Urban Theory by Josep Antoni Acebillo: includes work by Heliou Pinon and Alberto Viaplana, Pedro Barragan and Bernardo de Sola, Josep Maria Julia, Joan Miro, Martorell, Bohigas, and Mackay, Chillida, Federico Correa and Alfonso Mila, Gregotti Associati, Arata Isozaki, Santiago Calatrava, Manuel de Sola-Morales, Esteve Bonell and Francis Rius, Richard Meier, and Jose Rafael Moneo
- The Museums of 1993 by Ferran Mascarell: includes work by Gae Aulenti, Lluis Domenich I Montaner, Lluis Clotet and Ignacio Paricio
- Restored Modernism by Joan Rovira I Casajuana: includes work by Lluis Domenich I Montaner [Casa Lleo i Morera], Pere Joan Ravetllat and Carme Ribas [Joan Rubio I Bellver's Casa Golferichs], and Antoni Gaudi [Casa Mila]
- Supermanzana Diagonal by Manuel de Sola-Morales and Jose Rafael Moneo
- The Diagonal Down to the Sea by Ricard Fayos
- The Lay of the Land by Eduard Bru
- Norman Foster's Tower by Luis Calvet Mulleras
- Redesigning the RTVE Building Cristian Cirici, Carlos Basso
- Barcelona in Brief by Amador Ferrer
- Sponsors' section includes projects by Ariston, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni&C., Sabiem, Abert Laminati, and OSRAM
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 is devoted to a single designer or theme and is lavishly produced, with high-quality reproduction and carefully selected and presented illustrations.