Francesco Venezia (b. 1944) has collected, in this volume, all the documentation on his work, organizing projects and constructed works in short chapters starting with his first works in the early 1970s.
Francesco Venezia (b. 1944) has collected, in this volume, all the documentation on his work, organizing projects and constructed works in short chapters starting with his first works in the early 1970s. International architectural criticism quickly recognized the validity of Venezia’s research, identifying the Museum of Gibellina (1981-87) as one of the most original episodes in Italian architecture of the latter part of the 20th century.
Since the mid-1980s Venezia has come to terms with increasingly important design themes,
always demonstrating a consistency that makes him impervious to the temptations of fashion, intolerant of any ephemeral complacency, keeping faith with a lofty conception of architectural practice (the Messepalast area in Vienna, 1987, the Neues Museum in Berlin, 1994, the Museum of Seoul, 1995). The overview provided by this book permits evaluation of every aspect of Venezia’s work and – also thanks to the anthology of critical contributions by personalities like Alvaro Siza, Manfredo Tafuri, Vittorio Savi, Francesco Dal Co, William Curtis – appreciation of its linearity, commitment and quality.