Quirino De Giorgio

A great yet unduly ignored body of work: a tribute to Quirinio De Giorgio, whose buildings reflect evolutions in 20th-centruy architecture

Quirino De Giorgio (19071997) is among the few Italian architects whose careers represents the entirety of the twentieth century: from futurism through fascism to the experimentations linked to the invention of reinforced concrete. Too often remembered exclusively for his early futurist and fascist works, De Giorgio is an architect whose production continued, until his last years, to develop in the experimental and dynamic way which had characterized its beginnings.

Quirino De Giorgio: An Architects Legacy, the first English-language book dedicated to the Italian architect, is a constellation of his surviving buildings shown through the eyes of photographer Enrico Rizzato. In Rizzato's pictures, each one of the ninety surviving works will showcase the universality of De Giorgio's projects and the transformations that time has stamped on his creations, taking the reader on a voyage across the different facets of Italian architecture. Accompanying site plans, floorplans and sections provide deeper insight into De Giorgio's spatial, structural, urban, and landscaping inventions. An opening essay will introduce the reader to the still relatively unknown method and life of this highly original yet still too little known architect. The book also includes a full list of De Giorgio's works that has been reconstructed here for the first time through extensive archival work.

Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2020

• First monograph on Italian architect Quirino De Giorgio
• Features a new photographic survey of his sixty surviving buildings in Northern Italy from all stages of his career

• Additional site plans, floor plans, and sections offer a deeper insight into his spatial, structural, urban, and landscaping inventions

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Michel Carlana lives and works as an architect in Treviso. He is also holding a teaching and research appoinment at Università Iuav in Venice.

Luca Mezzalira lives and works as an architect in Treviso. He is also holding a teaching and research appointment at Università Iuav in Venice.

Cruzio Pentimalli lives and works as an architect in Treviso. He is also holding a teaching and research appoinment at Università Iuav in Venice.

Klappentext

Quirino De Giorgio (1907-1997) gehört zu den wenigen italienischen Architekten, in dessen Karriere sich das gesamte 20. Jahrhundert niederschlägt: vom Futurismus über den Faschismus bis zu den mit der Entwicklung des Stahlbetonbaus einhergehenden Experimenten. Allzu oft wird De Giorgio ausschliesslich mit seinen frühen, vom Faschismus geprägten Arbeiten in Verbindung gebracht. Seine experimentelle und dynamische Arbeitsweise setzte sich jedoch bis an sein Lebensende fort und brachte zahlreiche höchst beachtenswerte Bauten hervor. Dieses erste Buch über Quirino De Giorgio, das ausserhalb Italiens erscheint, bietet ein Panorama aller seiner rund neunzig erhaltenen Bauwerke durch die Linse des Fotografen Enrico Rizzato. Die Bilder zeigen die Spuren der Zeit, die sich in die Bauten eingeschrieben haben, und nehmen den Leser mit auf eine Reise quer durch die Facetten italienischer Architektur. Begleitende Lagepläne, Grundrisse und Schnitte bieten einen vertieften Einblick in die räumlichen, baulichen, urbanen und landschaftlichen Schöpfungen De Giorgios. Ein einführender Essay schildert die weitgehend unbekannten Methoden und den Werdegang dieses höchst innovativen Architekten.