Giancarlo De Carlo Architecture Book: Experiments in Thickness - Modern Design Theory & Urban Planning Studies for Architects and Design Students

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Publisher: Walther Koenig, ISBN: 9783753305783, Editors: Kersten Geers, and Jelena Pancevac (eds.), Format: Paperback, 14 x 25 cm, 264pp

Giancarlo de Carlo first visited the small Italian hill town Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the university. His ambitions quickly expanded, and he proposed a master plan to reconstruct the town through new buildings and renovations that melded with its social fabric. This book presents the work that de Carlo built there in the 1960s and ’70s, in the shadow of his involvement in Team 10 debates challenging modernist doctrine on architecture and urbanism.It is part of the Everything without Content series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis. The eight buildings in this book are presented through drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani.