Closing to the summer and the holidays, five hot-off-the-press titles to pack (even for the little ones) that are beautiful and useful for traveling through the work of great architects, designers, artists and, lo and behold , even writers. With a suggestion dedicated to those who, perhaps on a sailing boat, will have the opportunity to remember that ours is also a country of coasts, ports and - above all - lighthouses.
1. Norman Foster Networks – Norman Foster Works (Ed. Taschen, 350 euros)
“Everything inspires me. Sometimes I wonder if I see things that other people don't see». Thus wrote Norman Foster and here, today, a two-volume monograph that has just been released in bookstores seeks for the first time to capture the very essence of the great British designer and architect's gaze. A look expressed in 60 years of high-tech and visionary projects built on all continents. The target? Giving the reader a rare vision of his creative process through the texts of eight essays in which Foster recounts his approach to work, his inspirations, the link between art and architecture and between this and his passions, such as the -reckless- for the flight. But also through more than 1000 illustrations that highlight the beauty of the work of the architect who won many awards including the Compasso d'Oro in 1987 and the Priztker in 1999 and, today, almost ninety years old.
Who will like it: Who - in architecture - seeks above all the expression of pure geometry, as in Foster's projects. And to history buffs who, in these pages, will find the symbolic buildings of this time and of the last century.
