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Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers and translators. Linking architectural history and historiography within a broader history of ideas, this book proposes four different methods of writing history, defining historiographical genres, modes, and tones of writing that can be applied to history writing to analyze political and social moments in time. It identifies four writing genres: myths, chronicles, history, and fiction, which became accepted as forms of multiple postmodern historical stories after 1957. An important contribution to the architectural debate, Writing Architecture in Modern Italy will appeal to those interested in the history of architecture, history of ideas, and architectural education.

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers and translators. Linking architectural history and historiography within a broader history of ideas, this book proposes four different methods of writing history, defining historiographical genres, modes, and tones of writing that can be applied to history writing to analyze political and social moments in time. It identifies four writing genres: myths, chronicles, history, and fiction, which became accepted as forms of multiple postmodern historical stories after 1957. An important contribution to the architectural debate, Writing Architecture in Modern Italy will appeal to those interested in the history of architecture, history of ideas, and architectural education.

This book provides designers and students with an in-depth analysis of the architecture of the world-renowned Maggie’s Centres, an international network of buildings offering support to people affected by cancer. Conceived by Maggie Keswick Jencks during her experience of terminal cancer, together with her husband Charles Jencks, landscape designer and architectural critic, the centres represent a radical rethinking of care environments. Focusing on the relationship between architectural form and social activity, the book examines how and why the Maggie’s centres are so successful—addressing themes from the brief (Maggie Jencks’ ‘Blueprint’), through the manipulation of sensory and atmospheric qualities, to the role of the surrounding environment in providing occupants with a sense of refuge and comfort. The book also includes a comparative review of over 30 Maggie’s centres, designed by a select list of celebrated architects (including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, and Snøhetta) and features over 60 pages of building information—an invaluable reference source for designers alongside the main thematic discussion.The success of the Maggie’s centres has important global implications for the improvement of the design of care structures and therapeutic environments. The centres have established a flexible design methodology capable of uplifting the quality of life of the people involved. By helping to understand and identify these parameters, this book offers important insights for all students, scholars, and professionals involved in healthcare architecture, architecture for social care, as well as all those interested in the broad impact of architectural environments on people.

This book provides designers and students with an in-depth analysis of the architecture of the world-renowned Maggie’s Centres, an international network of buildings offering support to people affected by cancer. Conceived by Maggie Keswick Jencks during her experience of terminal cancer, together with her husband Charles Jencks, landscape designer and architectural critic, the centres represent a radical rethinking of care environments. Focusing on the relationship between architectural form and social activity, the book examines how and why the Maggie’s centres are so successful—addressing themes from the brief (Maggie Jencks’ ‘Blueprint’), through the manipulation of sensory and atmospheric qualities, to the role of the surrounding environment in providing occupants with a sense of refuge and comfort. The book also includes a comparative review of over 30 Maggie’s centres, designed by a select list of celebrated architects (including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, and Snøhetta) and features over 60 pages of building information—an invaluable reference source for designers alongside the main thematic discussion.The success of the Maggie’s centres has important global implications for the improvement of the design of care structures and therapeutic environments. The centres have established a flexible design methodology capable of uplifting the quality of life of the people involved. By helping to understand and identify these parameters, this book offers important insights for all students, scholars, and professionals involved in healthcare architecture, architecture for social care, as well as all those interested in the broad impact of architectural environments on people.

Sympoietic Architecture – Making with Lina Ghotmeh investigates the concept of sympoietic living in the work of Lina Ghotmeh. Defined by Donna Haraway as “making with” and “worlding with,” Ghotmeh’s work epitomizes this approach. As a multi-ethnic architect, working across countries, cultures and values, Ghotmeh’s work can be understood as a rich, sensible and articulated process of building that enshrines the practice of inclusive architecture as a “matter of care and responsi-bility.” In caring about the environment, the materials, the resources, the users, the clients, the land and its heritage, in caring about the concept of beauty, Earth and earthlings, her work displays a position which is at once poetic and political in its ecological approach to architecture. Ghotmeh’s work exemplifies a mode of design that reflects an understanding of architecture as a living systemrather than a static artifact. The project responds to the pressing social and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century, arguing that architecture must shift from the paradigm of control inherit-ed from late modernity toward a practice that thinks “with” the world. Through this research, the book argues that the future of architecture depends on its ability to create empathy, attentiveness and relational intelligence.