48 RASSEGNA
PONTI ABITATI
Vittorio Gregotti [Editor]
Vittorio Gregotti [editor]: 48 RASSEGNA [PONTI ABITATI]. Milan: CIPIA, 1991. Original edition [anno XIII, 48/4 -- December 1991]. Text in Italian. A nearly very good soft cover book with thick printed French folded wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight rubbing. Glued and stitched textblock starting to separate from covers. Textblock remains intact. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 128 well-illustrated pages. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to PONTI ABITATI [INHABITED BRIDGES].
- Introduzione by Vittorio Gregotti and Dario Matteoni
- Storia e attualita del pone abitato [Past and Present of the Inhabited Bridge] by Jean Dethier
- La citta e il ponte nell'Europa del Medioevo [The City and the Bridge in Medieval Europe] by Jean Mesqui
- Parigi dalla Senna [Paris from the Seine] by Miron Mislin
- Tra la citta e l'acqua [Between the City and the Water] by Phillippe Panerai
- Ponti abitati: archetipi [Inhabited Bridges: Archetypes]
- Ponti abitati: monumenti, progetti [Inhabited Bridges: Monuments, Projects]
- Sponsors' section includes projects by Teuco, Abert Laminati, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni&C., and Sabiem
Architects and designers include Le Corbusier, K. S. Melnikov, Craig Ellwood, Louis Kahn, John Soane, H. P. Berlage, Raymond Hood, Yona Friedman, Michael Graves, Bernard Tschumi, Morphosis Architects, Gregotti Assoc., Franco Purini, Ricard and Parat, A. Bianchetti, David Haid, Kenzo Tange, Edwin Luytens, Hugh Ferriss, Louis-Christian Mullgardt, and Frank Lloyd Wright among many others.
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.