51 RASSEGNA
ARCHITETTURA NELLE COLONIE ITALIANE IN AFRICA
Vittorio Gregotti [Editor]
Vittorio Gregotti [editor]: 51 RASSEGNA: ARCHITETTURA NELLE COLONIE ITALIANE IN AFRICA [Architecture in the Italian Colonies in Africa]. Milan: CIPIA, 1992. Original edition [anno XIV, 51/3 -- September 1992]. Text in Italian. A very good soft cover book with thick printed French folded wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight rubbing on the cover and the spine. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 120 well-illustrated pages. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to Architecture in the Italian Colonies in Africa.
- Introduzione [Introduction] by Dario Matteoni
- Alle origini della politica coloniale italianna: l’illusione della conquista [At the Origins of the Italian Colonial Politics: The Illusion of Conquest] by Fabrizio I. Apollonio
- Abitaire nei territori d’oltremare [Housing in the Overseas Territories] by Stefano Zagnoni
- Eritrea: i primi insediamenti [Eritrea: The First Settlements]
- Archittura per le cittá dell’impero [Architecture for the Towns of the Empire] by Giuliano Gresleri
- I protagonisiti [The Protagonists] by Gian Paolo Consoli
- La Libia: un laboratorio di archittura [Libya: An Architectural Workshop] by Marida Talamona
- Colonialismi in copertina [Colonialisms as Cover Features]
- Sponsors' section includes projects by Teuco, Abert Laminati, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni&C., and Sabiem
Architects include Carlo Enrico Rava, Luigi Piccinato, Gaspare and Luigi Lenzi, Enrico del Debbio, Giuseppe Pagano, Technical Dept. of INCIS, Guido Ferrazza, Fervet of Bologna, Plinio Marconi, Ignazio Guidi and Cesare Valle, Le Corbusier, Cesare Valle, Gherardo Bosio, Pietro Hoerner, Alberto Alpago Novello, Adalberto Libera, and Giovanni Pellegrini 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.