The lives of documents
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How do photographers select, order, and display their images to make visual arguments about built and natural environments? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, The Lives of Documents — Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an(...)
The lives of documents
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How do photographers select, order, and display their images to make visual arguments about built and natural environments? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, The Lives of Documents — Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography. Tracing the research materials, archiving practices, and production processes of diverse authors, photographers Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani highlight a selection of photographic projects that model our visible world by investigating notions of landscape and its destruction, global infrastructure, intimacy and interiority, and conditions of urban and domestic space and life. This publication follows Princen and Graziani’s travels to understand how artists use photography as a tool for their artistic research and how they conceive of their projects as evolving and expanding explorations. Bringing together studio visit images, artist interviews, and Princen and Graziani’s own reproduction of photographic projects, it emphasizes how photography reveals and expresses lived and built realities in ways that traditional architectural tools fail to represent or communicate.
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During the ‘CAMon! Project’ workshop led by Italian architects Michele Brunello, Marco Brega, and Andrea Angeli’s, students at the Libre Académie des Beaux-arts Douala in Cameroon learned how simple games can also be a formidable design tool. Through Stefano Graziani’s colour photographs, this book features the 12 games resulting from the students' designs. The texts(...)
Play & design from Cameroon: 12 prototypes inspired by theme of playing
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During the ‘CAMon! Project’ workshop led by Italian architects Michele Brunello, Marco Brega, and Andrea Angeli’s, students at the Libre Académie des Beaux-arts Douala in Cameroon learned how simple games can also be a formidable design tool. Through Stefano Graziani’s colour photographs, this book features the 12 games resulting from the students' designs. The texts address the theme of playing from different perspectives, highlighting the relationship between design, education and cooperation. Each game — puppets, puzzles, masks, and mazes — has a strong empathic value, based on imagination and a broader exploration of reality.
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Aldo Rossi: The urban fact
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The great Italian architect, designer, theorist and printmaker Aldo Rossi (1931–97) galvanized the postmodernist architectural movement in the middle of the 20th century with his unique synthesis of influences such as Adolf Loos, Giorgio de Chirico and Soviet architecture. From his publication Architecture of the City (1966) to his 1976 exhibition Analogous City, Rossi(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2021
Aldo Rossi: The urban fact
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The great Italian architect, designer, theorist and printmaker Aldo Rossi (1931–97) galvanized the postmodernist architectural movement in the middle of the 20th century with his unique synthesis of influences such as Adolf Loos, Giorgio de Chirico and Soviet architecture. From his publication Architecture of the City (1966) to his 1976 exhibition Analogous City, Rossi spent a decade developing a theory of urban design that focused on the “collective memory” of a city as an essential element of its urban planning and gave consideration to how buildings and urban areas age over time. Here, Rossi’s theory is applied to his own works from that period, both built and unbuilt, in a careful selection of 23 projects that express this memory-based paradigm of civic existence and construction. Aldo Rossi: The Urban Fact thus unifies Rossi’s theory and practice, demonstrating the visionary dimension driving his singular brand of postmodernism.
Architecture Monographs
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Quaderns 278 'Images Fall Short', first under Urtzi Grau and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal's directorship, questions why they do so. Continuing Quaderns' active role in shaping our collective imaginary, it asks Olivier Campagne, Karina Castro, Max Creasy, Rory Gardiner, Stefano Graziani, Gili Merin, Giulietta Margot, Javier Agustín Rojas and Milena Villalba to survey Catalunya.
Quaderns 278: Images fall short
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Quaderns 278 'Images Fall Short', first under Urtzi Grau and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal's directorship, questions why they do so. Continuing Quaderns' active role in shaping our collective imaginary, it asks Olivier Campagne, Karina Castro, Max Creasy, Rory Gardiner, Stefano Graziani, Gili Merin, Giulietta Margot, Javier Agustín Rojas and Milena Villalba to survey Catalunya.
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Sixty-eight portraits of Guido Guidi realized col tempo and over the course of multiple encounters by : Mariano Andreani, Nicola Baldazzi, Cesare Ballardini, Olivo Barbieri, Gianantonio Battistella, Emanuele Benini, Enrico Benvenuti, Michele Buda, Giammario Corsi, Jean-Paul Deridder, Alessandra Dragoni, Luca Fiore, Jonathan Frantini, Antonello Frongia, Marcello Galvani,(...)
Photography monographs
December 2024
Guido
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Sixty-eight portraits of Guido Guidi realized col tempo and over the course of multiple encounters by : Mariano Andreani, Nicola Baldazzi, Cesare Ballardini, Olivo Barbieri, Gianantonio Battistella, Emanuele Benini, Enrico Benvenuti, Michele Buda, Giammario Corsi, Jean-Paul Deridder, Alessandra Dragoni, Luca Fiore, Jonathan Frantini, Antonello Frongia, Marcello Galvani, Luca Gambi, Francesca Gardini, John Gossage, Stefano Graziani, Anna Guidi, Takashi Homma, Gerry Johansson, Flavio Marchetti, Nicole Marchi, Andrea Savorani Neri, Francesco Neri, Luca Nostri, Francesco Raffaelli, Sabrina Ragucci, Mattia Sangiorgi, Mariano Sartore, Stephen Shore, Mike Slack, Massimo Sordi, Jem Southam, John Spinks, Giovanni Zaffagnini, Antonello Zoffoli.
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Coinciding with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, eight internationally-renowned photographers describe Giancarlo De Carlo's work in Urbino. They are also professors at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche. Paola Binante, Luca Capuano, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Jason Fulford, Stefano(...)
Spiriti: Eight photographers recount Giancarlo de Carlo in Urbino
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Coinciding with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, eight internationally-renowned photographers describe Giancarlo De Carlo's work in Urbino. They are also professors at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche. Paola Binante, Luca Capuano, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Jason Fulford, Stefano Graziani, Armin Linke, and Giovanna Silva explore and recount the essence of the Italian architect's work through their own photographs of the spaces he designed, adding written accounts of their interpretation. De Carlo is quoted as saying a place is a space "experienced, consumed, perennially transformed by human presence".
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Giancarlo de Carlo first visited Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the University. This was the beginning of his lifetime engagement with the small town where he continued working over the next five decades. This book is part of the "Everything without content" series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis, and(...)
Giancarlo De Carlo: Experiments in thickness
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Giancarlo de Carlo first visited Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the University. This was the beginning of his lifetime engagement with the small town where he continued working over the next five decades. This book is part of the "Everything without content" series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis, and it presents the work Giancarlo de Carlo built in Urbino in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of his involvement in Team 10 debates that challenged modernist doctrines on architecture and urbanism. The eight buildings in this book are presented in drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani.
Architecture Monographs
Super Superstudio
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Superstudio (1966–86), a group of Florence-based architects comprising Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Roberto Magris, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris and, from 1970 to 1972, Alessandro Poli, were among the leading radical architects of the 1960s. Almost 50 years after the group’s establishment, their designs are gathered for the first time in(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2016
Super Superstudio
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Superstudio (1966–86), a group of Florence-based architects comprising Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Roberto Magris, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris and, from 1970 to 1972, Alessandro Poli, were among the leading radical architects of the 1960s. Almost 50 years after the group’s establishment, their designs are gathered for the first time in this volume, which contextualizes the firm’s works with that of contemporary artists, including Danai Anesiadou, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine, Pablo Bronstein and Stefano Graziani, among many others. This catalogue compiles Superstudio’s documents—including images, collages, critical writings and storyboards—drawn from the archive, and includes critical contributions from curators Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valer Scelsi. Super Superstudio is an important tribute to an assault on modernism, that, as the volume reveals, remained and remains relevant for generations to come.
Architecture Monographs
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Charleroi, the denigrated capital of the Belgian hinterland, is the unlikely new paradigm for a contemporary city. What seems an incoherent jumble of manmade exuberance—a byproduct of modernity, really—transcends the infamous architectural dichotomy between the centre and the periphery. This is the Large City; dispersed and decentralised, it embraces its post-industrial(...)
Everything Without Content 251. The large city
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Charleroi, the denigrated capital of the Belgian hinterland, is the unlikely new paradigm for a contemporary city. What seems an incoherent jumble of manmade exuberance—a byproduct of modernity, really—transcends the infamous architectural dichotomy between the centre and the periphery. This is the Large City; dispersed and decentralised, it embraces its post-industrial condition. An artificial nature where zero-kilometre food production, electric bikes and trail running enable everyone to live large. Without nostalgia for its industrial ruins, nor contempt for modernity, the city was the subject of a year-long studio led by Kersten Geers at the Academy of Architecture USI in Mendrisio. As a form of “applied theory”, the book presents students’ projects—an imaginary city—coupled with some real projects: Megafactory by OFFICE and Palais des Expositions by Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck & AgwA. The book features photographs of Charleroi by Stefano Graziani.
Architectural Theory
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Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of "The lives of documents—Photography as project", the project curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, and it was while putting this exhibition together that Konrad(...)
Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
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Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of "The lives of documents—Photography as project", the project curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, and it was while putting this exhibition together that Konrad shared her enthusiasm after researching the work of five women that conceived several residential neighbourhoods in Warsaw after the Second World War and redefined the city as a green haven. If the two book projects she presented in our exhibition—Atlas (2000) and Copy Cities (2003–2004)—brought together multiple fragments of her extensive and systematic documentary work on cities, her survey of the work of Alina Scholtz, Barbara Brukalska, Halina Skibniewska, Helena Syrkus, and Zofia Hansen leads now to a travel diary that reflects on the role of architecture and landscape architecture in defining places of bonding and belonging.
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