39 RASSEGNA
UNCONVENTIONAL TRANSPORT
Vittorio Gregotti [Editor]
Vittorio Gregotti [Editor]: 39 RASSEGNA [UNCONVENTIONAL TRANSPORT]. Milan: CIPIA, 1989. Original edition [anno XI, 39/3 -- September 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: the top of the spine is slightly rough. 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 UNCONVENTIONAL TRANSPORT.
- Preface by Giordano Tironi
- Unconventioanl Transport: An Illustrated Guide [this historical overview includes Cableways, Monorails, Water and railways, Compressed-Air Railways, Elevated Railways, Subways, Moving Sidewalks, Demonstrations of Verticality, and Demonstrations of Spectacularity: The Expos]
- Speed as a Design Theme by Nico Ventura
- The City in Motion by Daniele Pini with Lucia Guerrini
- A Technological History of Recent Unconventional Means of Transport by Marcello Liberatore
- People Moving in the City: Hanover's Stadtbahn by Luca Guerrini and Matteo Ignaccola
- People Moving in the City: The History and Evolution of the VAL System by Bernard Guilleminot
- People Moving in the City: The Story of a Patent by Robert Gabillard
- Fantastic Voyages by Ion Hobana
- Sponsors' section includes projects by Teuco, Abert Laminati, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni&C., and Sabiem
Architects and designers include Antonia Sant'Elia, Arturo Soria y Mata, OSA Group, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Le Corbusier, Ron Herron, Rayston Landau, Ebenezer Howard, Alison and Peter Smithson, Peter Cook, Archigram, Johannes H. van der Broek and Jacob B. Bakeman, and Giancarlo De Carlo 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.