Andrea Dragoni's Booklist
The books I have selected represent almost entirely, disciplinary pages that I like, I have purposely left out other texts of literature and visual art that have and still exert a great influence on me, to emphasize the architectural corpus.The theme of the composition in its various meanings is very present, an aspect that I consider central to our work but that is increasingly forgotten the orgiastic and strong babel of images that live in everyone's eyes.
De Re Aedificatoria
Leon Battista Alberti
The architecture has its immutability, Alberti's a method that seems written by forever.
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Précis des leçons d'architecture données à l'École polytechnique
About to make the spaces according to scientific and controlled combinatorial rules.
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Considerations Sur L'etat Des Beaux Arts: Critique de la modernité
Jean Clair
Stern and uncompromising text on measuring loss of contemporary visual arts .
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
Great text, a vision for the future is now more relevant than ever.
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Parallax
Steven Holl
On Holl method, which I love for its power of vision of the project / space which is in the first place the body movement in the space
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Complete Works
Le Corbusier
Corbu master of masters, summa maxima to meditate, read and reread
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La composizione. Commentari
Gian Carlo Leoncilli Massi
Memorable his lessons that still resonate in its main written as a harbinger of the Italian decadence disciplinary.
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Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth
William Richard Lethaby
Text virtually unknown in most Mediterranean dimensions, yet central in affirming that dimension of the 'absolute own.
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Silencios elocuentes
Carlos Martí Arís
On the Necessity of silence in architecture today, to practice with the judicious use of vacuum to achieve that power of absence that is the true essence of the project.
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La solitudine degli edifici
Rafael Moneo
Moneo is a great writer, perhaps in this work by the best architect investigating disciplinary and theoretical issues with a great power cut.
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Estetica del vuoto
Giangiorgio Pasqualotto
The book that made me passionate about the themes of the active void function, also in architecture.
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Georges Perec
Ideas have no scale, dealing with the design of a printed page as well as that of a building, requires the same method, Perec is perfect in explaining the phenomena of space.
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Pessoa was a great esotericist, the research concern, to exercise accurately, must always be present in our discipline.
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The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe
About literary composition in which the principles are the same as the architectural one
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Una lezione sul disegno
Franco Purini
Great text for clarity and sophistication with which it proposes compositional operations necessary to control the complexity of the contemporary.
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The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi
The only real treatise on architecture written in the contemporary era, lavish and deep.
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Igor Stravinsky
Luigi Snozzi’s gift that I loved immediately. An exemplary text for anyone concerned with composition
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Che cosa è l'architettura
Francesco Venezia
One of my first architectural reference, Venice is a true master, a beacon towards which orient themselves with the security of having found the right reference
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Identity of architecture
Paolo Zermani
Cultured and refined reflection on the theme of identity and measure, one of the few Italian items you could carry on a theoretical research worthy of the name
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Capolavori
Livio Vacchini
Simple and powerful as a magical grimoire, Vacchini is one of the most underrated architect of all time
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Andrea Dragoni Italian academic e architect
Andrea Dragoni (Perugia, 1969) graduated in architecture at the University in Florence. He was adjunct professor in Faculty of “Architettura e Società” at the Polytechnic of Milan; he is currently teaching in Perugia, at Academy of fine arts “Pietro Vannucci”. He has built and designed buildings all over Italy and abroad and won various awards in international contests both open and by invitation. He has published his papers in some of the most important magazines internationally acknowledged: in 2012 The Architectural Review selected him among the most relevant exponents of the “Emerging architecture”, recently he has won and obtained prestigious international awards as: Architectural record Design vanguard, The Armerican architecture prize™, World architecture comununity award Iconic Award, German Design Award, Architizer A+Award,, Emirate Glass LEAF Award, IQU prize. His works were exhibited at RIBA in London, Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt and Europen Parliament in Bruxelles.
Texts by Andrea Dragoni