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Il Labirinto dei Sabba: L’Architettura di Reima Pietilä

Carmine Benincasa’s book is one of the very rare Italian studies of the most original Finnish modernist Reima Pietilä (1923–1993). Professor Benincasa, Italian art critic and art historian professor, makes a careful morphogenetic, structural and syntactic analysis of Reima Pietilä’s architectural language.

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Carmine Benincasa’s book Il Labirinto dei Sabba: L’Architettura di Reima Pietilä is one of the very rare Italian studies of the most original Finnish modernist Reima Pietilä (1923–1993). Professor Benincasa, Italian art critic and art historian professor, makes a careful morphogenetic, structural and syntactic analysis of Reima Pietilä’s architectural language.

For Benincasa, Pietilä represents a natural and environmental approach to architecture: symbolic suggestions of ancient Nordic legends and aspirations for dissolution with the world of forests, caves and northern nature. The book contains a study of Pietilä’s relationship with modern architecture, an analysis of four Pietilä’s characteristic works – the Dipoli student centre, the Kaleva Church, the Suvikumpu housing area, and the “Vyöhyke” exhibition in 1968 (La Zona, the zone) – an interview with Raili and Reima Pietilä and a summary of Pietilä’s life and career. Excerpt from the back cover:

Una attenta analisi morfogenetica, strutturale e sintattica del linguaggio architettonico di Reima Pietilä, il maggiore architetto finlandese contemporaneo, le cui realizzazioni tendono constantemente a recuperare il rapporto natura-storia, ambiente-architettura, in un gioco di identificazione, mimesis o finzione tra ambiente interno e realtà esterna, che molto subisce le suggestioni simboliche delle antiche leggende nordiche e le aspirazioni ad una dissoluzione con il mondo delle foreste, delle caverne e della natura del Nord.

The copy for sale is in good condition. The cover shows some signs of wear, the fly leaf has the owner’s signature and some glue stains, but the pages are tidy.

Weight 222 g
Dimensions 18,0 × 11,0 × 1,2 cm
Author(s)

Carmine Benincasa

Binding

Softcover

Condition

Images

b&w photos, drawings

Language

Number of pages

220

Publisher

Dedalo libri

Publishing year

1979