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Felix Candela From Mexico City to Chicago

Alexander EisenschmidtFelix Candela, one of the most important and iconic architects of the 20th century, became world-renowned for his many captivating concrete-shell structures in Latin America and across the globe.

Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete Alexander Eisenschmidt Candela’s move from Mexico City to Chicago, despite his professional success, is rarely discussed. This book investigates the political and economic conditions that influenced his work and motivated his departure, offering a more nuanced understanding of his contributions to mid-20th-century architecture. Unlike existing literature, it examines Candela’s work in both Mexico and the US, highlighting his role as an architect who shaped new architectural spaces with smooth curves and rough concrete. Combining historical research, oral histories, contemporary theories, construction photographs, essays, interviews, and translations of Candela’s writings, this book reveals his unique position in Latin-American and US architecture. It explores the conditions in both countries, such as Mexico's low wages and cheap timber fostering concrete experimentation in the 1950s, and how the 1968 student demonstrations in Mexico City and Chicago's architectural legacy influenced Candela. The book also delves into Candela’s "Chicago period" through essays based

Il diritto alla Natura (ITA ED.)

Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro FrigerioIn dialogue with other architects and committees, the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities. The Right to nature explores the right to nature as a new landscape culture through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape.

Per un nuovo paesaggio urbano Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio Il diritto alla Natura è un nuovo capitolo di riflessione e lavoro di AG&P greenscape, incentrato sul rapporto attuale e rinnovato tra l'uomo e la natura, e sulla conseguente trasformazione delle nostre città attraverso nuove modalità di vivere, abitare e lavorare, con la natura e il paesaggio come protagonisti, in ogni ambito e a tutte le scale del progetto, come equilibratori sociali e attivatori di una nuova socialità urbana. Il rapporto tra l'uomo e la natura oggi è una questione urgente nel dibattito sulla città contemporanea, ma deve ancora essere veramente esplorato, definito e costruito. Attraverso sette temi principali – Infrastrutture verdi e blu, Rigenerazione, Spazio pubblico, Abitare, Welfare verde, Patrimonio e Cura – il libro esplora le questioni contemporanee del paesaggio urbano alle diverse scale del progetto, alla luce del rapporto tra essere umano e natura. Il concetto viene esplorato

The Right to Nature (ENG ED.)

Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro FrigerioIn dialogue with other architects and committees, the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities. The Right to nature explores the right to nature as a new landscape culture through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape.

For a new urban landscape Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio The Right to Nature is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG&P greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Throughout seven main topics – Green and blue infrastructures, Regeneration, Public space, Dwelling, Green welfare, Heritage, and Care –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature. The

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