Piero Portaluppi

(Hardback)

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Celebrated in the 1930s, controversial and forgotten during the postwar period, and finally rediscovered today, Piero Portaluppi was an undisputed protagonist of 20th-century Italian architecture. An eclectic and agnostic protagonist, who steered clear of specific styles and schools, a master of hydroelectric architecture, and a great bourgeois whose projects changed the face of Milan. But Portaluppi was not only an architect; indeed he played many other roles, with equal passion, in his life: caricaturist, traveller, collector, puzzler and amateur filmmaker, to name a few. He called them his 25 careers. Produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, the book follows, 18 years later, the catalogue of the major exhibition at Triennale Milano that marked the beginning of the architect's critical rebirth. This new, exhaustive monograph comprises a large photo album with new colour images of Piero Portaluppi's architectural projects and interiors, taken by the wellknown photographer Ciro Frank Schiappa; three previously unpublished essays, illustrated with vintage photos by Antonio Paoletti; views and models of Portaluppi projects, and items documenting his personal interests (cartoons, diagrams, sundials, postcards, newspaper cuttings). There is also an interview with Portaluppi's nephew, the architect Piero Castellini, by the famous film director Luca Guadagnino; an unpublished essay by Paolo Portoghesi, based on the keynote lecture given by the architect on 10 April 2018 in the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan; a biography of Piero Portaluppi by Jacopo Ghilardotti, and list of works and bibliography compiled by Ferruccio Lupi, conservator at the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi.

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Piero Maranghi, great-grandson of Piero Portaluppi, is director of the Fondazione Portaluppi. Ciro Frank Schiappa (Dublin, 1971) studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence, Italy. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide