Monacelli
August 2003
Peter Eisenman's eagerly awaited magnum opus--forty years in the
making--documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe
Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio, both
in Como, Italy. This far-reaching study--illustrated with finely delineated
two-color diagrams, archival drawings from Terragni's studio, and period
photographs--employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual readings of both
buildings.
Eisenman describes the articulations and openings on the facades ; notations
providing the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, the four
sequential design schemes each record the previous state, encoding the process
of transformation. In the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio, it is instead the process of
decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay
by Terragni, on the commissioning, design, and construction of the Casa del
Fascio, and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri, the renowned Italian architectural
historian and theorist.
304 p., 30 x 24 cm
EAN 9781885254962
