Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques

by Peter Eisenman

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Forty years in the making, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs -- employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual. It is through this idea of the textual that Eisenman begins to...Read more
  • ISBN10 0847815366
  • ISBN13 9780847815364
  • Publish Date January 1998
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English