exlibris: 16 keywords of contemporary architecture Giovanni Corbellini
LetteraVentidue, November 2018

Paperback | 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches | 160 pages | No illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-8862423359

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Architects write a lot, especially now when conceptual aspects have become central in the advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices far an ultimate legitimation. 
In the growing mass of the publishing offer, these keywords try to highlight recurrent issues, tracking synthetic paths of orientation between different critical positions, with particular attention to what happens in the neighboring fields of the arts and sciences.
Giovanni Corbellini (1959), PhD, ski instructor, self-builder, architect, critic of contemporary architecture, has taught in Venice, Ferrara, Milan and Trieste. He is the author of many essays. REFERRAL LINKS:
 

dDAB COMMENTARY:
In 2002, when he was given the "pleasant task of proposing the books to purchase by the library of the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara," Giovanni Corbellini started writing "keywords," most of them making their way onto the arch'it website. Those keywords related to architectural theory and criticism were collected by Milan's 22 Publishing in 2007 as Ex libris: 16 parole chiave dell'architettura contemporanea, with a second edition published by LetteraVentidue in 2015. Four years later the same publish...