- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG; illustrated edition edition (Dec 1999)
- Language German
- ISBN-10: 3764361050
- ISBN-13: 978-3764361051
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 26.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,974,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume is a presentation of Silvestrin's complete oevre to 1999. Silvestin's work is minimalist, drawing out the basic elegance and clarity of the rooms, and is sensitive to the effects of light and colour.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good architect, bad book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Claudio Silvestrin (Hardcover)
I have admiringly followed Silvestrin's minimal work for some years and was waiting for a book. When I read on the sleeve that it was designed by A.G. Fronzoni, his ex-teacher, a minimalist himself ( they despise to be labeled ) what could be better. From there on I was amazed. The photographs are the same I have seen in previous publications; there are nearly no new images but I was ready to accept this because I new that he is very particular about the way he shows his work. I was ready for a total experience: a book designed, layed out, written and photographed by a closely working team. I was dismayed. The first impression is that it has been stretched to the limit to make a thick book out of scant material. Small, nearly microscopic photos surrounded by empty white paper with some written lines scattered here and there. The same photos blown up and cut into meaningless details of grainy quality, distributed in such an irrational manner that makes you keep turning this rather hefty volume to look or read, images and words sometimes horizontal or vertical, you can even find both directions in some pages. The designer never thought about reading or looking, he just designed for graphic efect. Nearly all text and captions are deeply pretentious. The ideas ruined by triple adjectives, opposites and a general loss of humility (" Good architecture makes us silent" ) that distracts you completely from the idea of the process of design. The architectural information comes from the pictures and some insufficient, aleatory, flea sized plans or sections and there in nearly no information on his new work. It is a pity that such fine and simple work is shown in such a forced way. The opposite of the Cistercitian aesthetics the architect professes to adhere. But it is the only Silvestrin book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
No Place for the Minimal,
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This review is from: Claudio Silvestrin (Hardcover)
I am an admirer of Claudio Silvestrin's work but find it strange that someone so fastidiuos about the content of his architecture and design should have allowed this book to get into print. I have been making and designing boks for 40 years and this is (in context) one of the most dismal I have seen. If one leaves out the pretentious commentaries on the objectives there is little in the visuals to celebrate. How did this happen ?ian Tyson
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Claudio Silvestrin (Hardcover)
excelente dialogo espacial a traves de la luz y las sombras, el espacio lleno y el espacio vacio. un buen libro para entender que es el minimalismo y como se expresa.
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