Adalberto Libera - Adalberto Libera Opera completa - 1989

A fundamental presence in the debate on the history of Italian architecture in the 20th century.
Libera's involvement with the Gruppo 7 and the subsequent manifestations of the Miar and the commissioning of important works place him in the ambiguous context of Italian experimentation straddling the third and fourth decades of the 20th century. His stance is, however, colored by a fundamental interdisciplinary attitude evidenced by the Congress Palace complex, where he designs “built” walls in mosaic, while in the Mediterranean and purist synthesis of Villa Malaparte his tendency toward a composition for metaphysical suspensions and the symbolic revitalization of the classical myth is reflected.

This volume deliberately emphasizes the connection between architecture and the visual arts and brings out in Libera's theoretical-poetic vision the character of absolute essentiality, examining step by step the creative process in all its relations with the cultural dynamics of the twentieth century and the postwar period.

Title: Adalberto Libera: Complete Works

Publication: Milan: Electa, 1989

Description: 254 pages, illustrated

Collection: Electa Architettura. Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Excellent, some signs of wear to the casing and to the spine of the dust jacket in a volume otherwise perfect, RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER