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Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Sam Ridgway 1st edition
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Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration - Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Sam Ridgway
Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice during the late 1960s, Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family, where he became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career, he continued to work on numerous architectural projects, including exhibitions, competition entries, and designs for approximately 35 buildings, a small number of which were built. As a means of (re)constructing the theatre of imaginative theory within which these buildings were created, Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection of Frascari?s texts, including his richly poetic book Monsters of Architecture, to explore the themes of representation, demonstration, and anthropomorphism. Three of Frascari?s delightful buildings are then brought to light and interpreted, revealing a sophisticated and interwoven relationship between texts and buildings.
152 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 12, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138567795 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 136 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 300 g |
| Language | English |
