Restless Architecture. Diller Scofidio + Renfro
edited by Pippo Ciorra and Maddalena Scimemi
texts by Lorenza Baroncelli, Pippo Ciorra, Cornelia Escher, Samantha Hardingham, Sylvia Lavin, Maddalena Scimemi, Erik Wegerhoff
Forma editions, Florence 2024
Italian and English double edition
24×17 cm
144 pages
€ 25
The book of the Restless Architecture exhibition, curated and designed by the New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro for MAXXI, intercepts a line of research parallel to that of the exhibition and, at the same time, establishes a continuous relationship with it. On the one hand, it explores the theme of movement as an alien and, simultaneously, inescapable dimension of the architectural organism, rereading some of the architects’ crucial realisations and relating them to other critical experiences of modernity. On the other hand, it restores the sequence conceived by the Diller Scofidio + Renfro studio specifically for the Roman exhibition, thus offering an unprecedented and topical interpretation of the theme, configured as a critical essay of their extensive and spectacular production. The result is a complex and convincing narrative that introduces a new key to the history and present of architecture.
The volume is enriched by a rich iconographic apparatus, author’s images depicting the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and an anthology of texts on the theme of movement from the 1st century B.C. to the contemporary age.
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