Maria Bottero – Forays Beyond The Modern : The Architecture Of Umberto Riva

Description

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives.
The book is conceived as an anthology in which the texts of the author Maria Bottero open and close a series of critical essays taken from out-of-print books. It is a mixture of early and more contemporary essays, with the aim of offering a range of critical evolutions around the architect as wide as possible.
A precious collaboration with the architect’s personal archive and with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal allowed to retrieve and present his sketches and drawings to the public.
New revised edition of the book originally published in 2021.
Maria Bottero (1932), architect, was professor at the Polytechnic School of Milan. From 1963 to 1974 she was editor-in-chief of the international architecture magazine Zodiac, founded by Adriano Olivetti.
Umberto Riva (1928-2021) was an architect and designer, one of the masters of Italian architecture between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A student of Carlo Scarpa, he inherited from him the artistic and artisanal attitude of the project, the taste for open forms and the sensitivity for an operational scale that extends from the material detail to the landscape. His work ranges from the design of objects and lamps where light becomes the protagonist, to urban housing projects, private and public buildings, exhibition installations and an important painting parenthesis.

Edited by Claudia Mion.
Texts by Maria Bottero, Francesco Cellini, Pierluigi Nicolin, Giovanni Raboni, Marco Rapposelli, Marco Romanelli, Mirko Zardini.