Abstract :
Experimental architecture in Italy began to take a new form in the 1990s when young architects, who were embracing new digital technologies, also began to go abroad to study and practise in greater numbers. Anna Baldini outlines a fecund strand in Italian architecture which, while no longer wholly new or youthful, retains its vitality. She highlights, in particular, the contributions of: Avatar Architettura, Gianluca Brini, Elastico spa+3, Exposure Architects, Giuliano Fausti, Luisa Fontana, Giorgio Goffi, ian+, Iotti+Pavarani Architetti, Fabrizio Leoni, ma0/emmeazero, Antonella Mari, Metrogramma, Open Building Research (OBR), RoccAtelier, studio.eu and Vulcanica Achitettura. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Zaha Hadid , the Dalmine waste-to-energy and biomass facility , an alveolar structure of glass prisms , Marina Borelli and Aldo di Chio) , Iotti+Pavarani Architetti (Paolo Iotti and Marco Pavarani) , 2006 , Giuliano Fausti , the Centre Pompidou by Renzo Piano , Zig Zag Factory , the O house , reflect , intense city , Fields of Psychological Turbulence hospital , Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini , Satin Textile Co Ltd , Massiccio del Sulcis in Sardinia , inside/outside and cut. , dense city , Vema , Internet , Mimetica House , Super Infrastructure: high-density manufacturing settlements , Naples , ma0/emmeazero (Massimo Ciuffini , Gianluca Brini , Exposure Architects , Schio , RoccAtelier , new parking structure in Melfi , Ketty Di Tardo , Residential building , Octospider cafeteria , 2004 , Almost round housing , Avatar Architettura (Nicola Santini and Pier Paolo Taddei) , Alberto Lacovoni and Luca La Torre) , Via Zoccoli , citizens of the world , Luisa Fontana , Confederazione Nazionale Artigianato (CAN) , Massa di Somma , the Siena Stadium , intermediate generation , era of globalisation , 2005 , Habitat 2001 , Nostra Signora di Lourdes Clinic , Communications Tower and residences in Reggio Emilia , Open Building Research (Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi) , Thailand , Stefania Manna and Luca Galofaro) , 2004 , Elastico spa+3 (Stefano Pujatti and Alberto Del Maschio , (Paola Cannav? , Giorgio Goffi , Satin Textile Co Ltd , Arup , Ruginello , T.I.M.E.SWAP (Total Integral Market Experience) , continuicity , Bologna , Oliviero Godi , Estonian National Museum , technological trees , Vema , Flower Power energy park , 2002 , 2004 , Tor Vergata University in Rome , nursery school in Sesto San Giovanni , The Routes of Speculation educational centre , Maria Ippolita Nicotera and Francesca Venier) , Housing in Brescia , Bangkok , ian+(Carmelo Baglivo , Milan , 12 houses in Foligno in Perugia , studio.eu , 2004 , young experimentalists , Bangkok , Metrogramma (Andrea Boschetti and Alberto Francini) , Beverello wharf in Naples , monument in Correggio , 2006 , Daniel Libeskind , Schle Wood , Fabrizio Leoni Architettura with Olindo Merone Architetto , four key terms: plans in e/motion , Slow Town Vema , Antonella Mari , The Tirrena Auto Showroom in Rome , Frank Gehry , Dorit Mizrahi , Tomihiro Museum in Japan , Vulcanica Architettura (Eduardo Borrelli , 2006 , Vema , Le Corbusier and Rationalism
