#books #architecture | Gregotti & Associates : the architecture of urban landscape

Gregotti & Associates : the architecture of urban landscape / Guido Morpurgo ; translation, Colin Parmar.
New York : Rizzoli, 2014.
192 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Arquitectura del paisaje / Gregotti Associati / Urbanismo

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780847842841
Cita APA-7: Morpurgo, Guido (2014). Gregotti & Associates : the architecture of urban landscape. Rizzoli.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72GREGOTTI GRE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1157920890

[.en] To be published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Vittorio Gregotti, founder and principal of the world-renowned Gregotti Associati. Gregotti reigned as editor of Casabella, Italys leading interior design and architecture magazine, for fourteen years. This book is a survey of his career and highlights his most important projects in architecture, urban design, and graphic design. However, the designs that take the spotlight are the ones Gregotti has conceived in China. In Pujiang (near Shanghai), he created the master plan for a new town inspired by the classical beauty of Italy. Pujiang brings pure Italian style to the heart of a new China: villas with a terrace or garden, classic Italian construction materials (such as white granite and red Venetian stucco), piazzas, hotels, shopping arcades, hanging gardens, and even navigable canals. This "Venice of the Orient" is the crowning achievement of a breathtaking career.

This volume, thoroughly illustrated with drawings and photographs, profiles a selection of works and projects developed between 2008 and 2013 by Vittorio Gregotti, one of the world's leading architects and designer, and his studio. The projects are collected and grouped into three main geographical areas - Northern Africa, China, and Europe - and are analysed and described in detail in terms of being part of an overarching conception of landscape or urban architecture. Plans for new cities in Algeria, Egypt and China and the occasions for changing European contexts are described in projects for public buildings in urban and territorial scale. Critical texts of presentation of geographic areas and a detailed illustrated register summarize the entire course of study through 60 years of activity.