EAN: 9783038603115

THE ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC SPACE

This new book by Labics  one of Italy's leading architectural firms  is devoted to the
country's architecture of public space. Galleries  loggias  porticoes  steps  and courtyards 
are the elements that characterize Italy's historic towns and cities-and that make the
experience of its public space so intense. Yet the volume does not feature new designs by
Labics themselves: rather  Maria Claudia Clemente  Francesco Isidori  and their collaborators
set out to explore historic spaces  to analyze their histories and typologies  and to document
and describe them through newly taken photographs  plans  and diagrams  treating them as
contemporary artifacts.   Through the illustration and categorization of thirty-two case
studies  The Architecture of Public Space has the ambition to build a general theory on the
design of public space  a theory that acts before and independently of language and that is
based on the idea that the city is structured through the relationship between architecture and
public space. With an essay written by Marco Biraghi  professor of history of contemporary
architecture at the Politecnico di Milano.

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