
Aurelio Galfetti
The Construction of Space
- Series Mendrisio Academy Press
- Edited by Franz Graf
- Binding Paperback with flaps
- Size 24 x 28 cm
- Pages 160
- Illustrations 128
- Language Italian, English
- Year 2021
- ISBN 9788836648689
- Price € 30,00 € 28,50
The volume contains three essays offering a specific reading of different moments in the work of Aurelio Galfetti (Lugano, 1936), a well-known Swiss architect who collaborated - between the sixties and eighties - with exponents of the so-called "Ticino school" and founder, together with Mario Botta, of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture.
Starting from a single project - such as the new pavilion of the neuropsychiatric hospital in Mendrisio (New Villa Ortensia), representative of Galfetti's professional practice - it is shown how the idea of a territorial architecture has always linked the project in his work (on every scale) to the place, the landscape and the territory.
Contents
Introduction
Franz Graf
«How do I want this space to be perceived?»
New Villa Ortensia at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Mendrisio (1946-1976)
Franz Graf
The Mediterranean amid the Alps. A project and a work by Lio Galfetti
Nicola Navone
Aurelio Galfetti's Topography
Laurent Stalder
Passion, Enthusiasm and Hope. A Conversation with Aurelio Galfetti
Francesca Albani
Maurizio Giufrè, il manifesto, 31/08/2022
Un singolare «capo cantiere» che ridisegna i luoghi pubblici
Architetture 1960-2010
Lo spettacolo dell'architettura
Experimental, Aesthetical, and Ethical Approaches to Form in Recent and Postwar Architecture