#books #architecture | Islamabad today

Islamabad today / Giovanna Silva with a text by Paolo Rosselli.
Milan : Mousse Publishing, 2021.
1 v. (pag. var.). : il.
Serie: Narratives ; 9.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Pakistán / Islamabad (Pakistán)‏ / Ponti, Gio, 1891-1979 / Rosselli, Alberto, 1921-1976

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788867494576
Cita APA-7: Silva, Giovanna, & Rosselli, Paolo (2021). Islamabad today. Mousse Publishing.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(549) ISL
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1316774892

[.en] In 1962, the architecture practice Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design and build part of the Ministries area of the new capital of West Pakistan, Islamabad, which was under construction according to Constantinos Doxiadis and Robert Matthewʼs master plan. Fifteen hundred architecture drawings and less than two years later, the buildings were completed. At some moments, five thousand workers were on site at the same time. Project manager Alberto Rosselli declared that the idea was not to transfer their Western knowledge to Pakistan, but to create a new Pakistan.

Moved by this incredible project, where the personal stories of the Ponti and Rosselli families crossed paths against a backdrop of architectural and political history, Giovanna Silva traveled to Islamabad in 2020 with Paolo Rosselli, nephew of Gio Ponti and son of Alberto Rosselli. It was a journey through architecture, personal memories, and a city built in the desert as a future capital of a new world, against the beautiful scenary of the Margalla Hills.

Silvaʼs photographs show the buildings in their everyday public function, with a focus on the spaces as performed by their users. The book also features archival images of the building site and construction, and a narrative text by Paolo Rosselli tracing the story of the project and his reactions during his first visit to his father’s work in Islamabad.

Giovanna Silva, Paolo Rosselli: ‘Islamabad Today’
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=8792&menu=4 

A photographic journey through the architecture and history of the capital of Pakistan, built ex nihilo from 1961 to the mid 1970s. Giovanna Silva lives and works in Milan. As a photographer, she exposed at the Venice Biennale 2006 her work about the city of Bogotà, Colombia. She is the author of ‘Desertions’, a chronicle of an american trip with designer Enzo Mari. From 2005-2007 she contributed to ‘Domus’ and since september 2007 until september 2011 she was the Photo Editor of ‘Abitare’. She photographed Renzo Piano and Zaha Hadid for the Abitare's special issues ‘Being Renzo Piano’ and ‘Being Zaha Hadid’, 6 month experience of architecture in the making. In 2011 she published the book, ‘Orantes’, ed. Quodlibet. In 2012 she published ‘Narratives/Relazioni: Baghdad, Green Zone, Red Zone, Babylon’, Mousse Publishing. She is in the editorial board of ‘San Rocco’ Magazine. She is the editor of Humboldt Books. She has a column on Doppiozero.