28 RASSEGNA
PERRET: 25 BIS RUE FRANKLIN
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]: 28 RASSEGNA: PERRET: 25 BIS RUE FRANKLIN]. Milan: Editrice CIPIA, 1986. Original edition [anno VIII, 28/4 – dicembre 1986]. Text in Italian. Text in Italian with parallel captions in English. Quarto. Plain thick wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 88 [xxx] pp. Approx. 250 illustrations. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Textblock lightly sun-yellowed along top of pages. Wrappers lightly worn with spine sunned. A very good or better copy.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 128 pages and approx. 250 illustrations, some in color. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to Auguste Perret's 25 Bis Rue Franklin building.
One must never allow into a building any element destined solely for ornament, but rather turn to ornament all the parts necessary for its support.
- Prefazione
- Peretti: 25 bis rue Franklin by Vittorio Gregotti
- Auguste e Gustave Perret: un classicismo d'avanguardia by Joseph Abram
- 1903-1933, cronaca di un'architettura by Martin Bressani
- La tecnica del progetto by Paul Poitevin
- Facciata in ceramica per un edificio in calcestruzzo by Helene Guene
- Finestre su corte by Henro Bresler
- Ritratto di un'architettura
- Strumento musicale [Padiglione alla sezione Arte-Biologia della Biennale di Venezia 1986: Progetto di Biondi, Perazzi e Silvi, iGuzzini illuminazione]
- Divani e poltrone [Roll: Un progetto di Afra e Tobia Scarpa, Molteni & c.]
- Linea F [Una nuova serie di cabine d'ascensure, Sabiem]
- Existenz-minimum [Una lavabiancheria a carica dall'alto, Ariston]
- Sity [Un sistema per l'ambiente destrutturato: Un progetto di Antonio Citterio, B&B Italia]
- Dalle Nove alla Cinque [Un ambiente ufficio per gli anni novanta: Un progetto di Richard Sapper, Castelli]
- La qualita architettonica [MEG Print hpl, Abet Laminati]
Construction is the architect's mother tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks in construction. -- Auguste Perret
"This apartment building with which Perret established his reputation is to be regarded as one of the canonical works of 20th-century architecture, not only for its explicit and brilliant use of the reinforced concrete frame (the Hennebique system) but also for the way in which its internal organization was to anticipate Le Corbusier's later development of the free plan. Perret deliberately made the apartment partition walls nonstructural throughout and their partial removal would have yielded an open space, punctuated only by a series of free-standing columns. As it is, each floor is organized with the main and service stairs to the rear (each with its own elevator) the kitchen to one side and the principal rooms to the front. These last are divided up from left to right into rooms assigned to smoking, dining, living, sleeping and reception . . ." -- Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p 116.
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.