Hot House : Italian New Wave Design by Andrea Branzi (1984, Hardcover)

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PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262022117
ISBN-139780262022118
eBay Product ID (ePID)1995684

Product Key Features

Book TitleHot House : Italian New Wave Design
Number of Pages156 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Criticism, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General
Publication Year1984
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Architecture
AuthorAndrea Branzi
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in
Item Weight35.3 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN84-007929
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal745.4/4945
SynopsisThe Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design., The Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design. Covering two centuries of avantgarde designs, but concentrating on the 1950s to the present, the book looks at architecture and urban design as well as graphic, interior, exhibit, industrial, and fashion design. It discusses the role that such magazines as Casabella, Domus, and Modo have played on this lively front, and provides an insider's view of such figures and groups as Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Alychmia, Global Tools, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, and-the design world's hot new movement-Memphis. It also elucidates such concepts as banal design, soft design, radical architecture, and color cultures, and relates these and other design developments to social and political issues. Protagonist of many of these experiments, Andrea Branzi calls for a theory and practice in which the old methods and instruments - pencil, square, and compass - are rendered obsolete, and the formal commandments of modernism - comfort, function, and style - are banished. If Branzi's vision of the new domestic landscape bears any relation to the future home, the places we live and objects around us are on the verge of being radically transformed. The Hot House dramatically expands the theoretical and operative limits of design. While precedents to Il Nuovo Design (The New Design) can be found in everything from Art Deco to De Stijl to Pop Art to California funk, Italy is the center of this new phenomenon and the "hot house" of its most intense activity. Beginning in the 1960s, there emerged a number of design studios that went by names like Archizoom, 9999, Superstudio, and UFO; their products redefined the basic architecture of furniture and clothing and polemicized an entire discipline. Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, has been a leading force in Italian design since the 1960s. As the founder of Archizoom Associates and member of the experimental design collective Global Tools, he is responsible for many of the experiments described in this book. He lives and works in Milan, where he is Educational Director of Domus Academy and Editorial Director of Modo.
LC Classification NumberNK1452.A1B72 1984
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