Since his early buildings in the 1950s at Udine in Friuli, north east Italy, Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the postwar period. His artistic talent,...
moreSince his early buildings in the 1950s at Udine in Friuli, north east Italy, Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the postwar period. His artistic talent, associated with a great intellectual curiosity and a genuine passion for new construction systems, led Valle to develop an architectural work that was resolutely open and multiform. Whether in the smaller towns of Friuli and Veneto or in international metropolitan centres such as New York, Paris or Berlin, Valle realised a wide range of important works from social housing to banks, factories, offices, town halls and courthouses. These buildings make valuable contributions to debates about the relationship between new architecture and historic surroundings, between industrial and open landscape, urban design and architectural intervention. This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to the work of Gino Valle. Pierre-Alain Croset is professor for architecture at Milan Polytechnic. He has been Dean of Architecture at the Technical University of Graz (Austria) and at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou (China), and professor at Turin Polytechnic. He has published many critical essays on contemporary architecture, and curated exhibitions on Valle, Aalto, Cattaneo, Scarpa and Siza. Luka Skansi is an architectural historian, assistant professor at University in Rijeka, Croatia. His research interests include Italian Architecture and Engineering of the 20th century, the Architecture in ex-Yugoslavia and Russian and Soviet Architecture.
