Some reasons for traveling to Italy /
"Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson's professional life and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presented themselves as not just the easy list - holidays, food, architecture and culture - but as the prompt for a more ingrained un...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2022]
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| Summary: | "Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson's professional life and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presented themselves as not just the easy list - holidays, food, architecture and culture - but as the prompt for a more ingrained understanding of Italy's wider architectural habitat and cultural mythology. This book, first published by the AA School in 2016, appears in the form of a latter-day Baedeker. But rather than a pragmatic itinerary, its content offers an eclectic and idiosyncratic list of assorted reasons to head south, richly illustrated by Wilson's own drawings and watercolors"-- |
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| Item Description: | Traveling spelled with one L in title. "It was Thomas Weaver, then editor of AA Files at the Architectural Association, who suggested publishing a handful of these reasons in his journal, and who subsequently expanded the initial clutch of anecdotes into a dedicated book and exhibition"--Acknowledgements. Revised edition of: Some reasons for travelling to Italy / Peter Wilson. London : Architectural Association, 2016. Includes drawings and watercolors by Peter Wilson. |
| Physical Description: | 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780262047265 0262047268 |