DE CARLO: GIANCARLO DE CARLO. EXPERIMENTS IN THICKNES

Giancarlo de Carlo first visited Urbino in 1951 to renovate the university's rector's office. This was the beginning of a lifelong employment in this small town, where he continued to work for the next five decades. This book is part of the "Everything without Content" series and presents works that Giancarlo de Carlo realized in Urbino in the 1960s and 1970s, while at the same time he participated in the debates of Team 10, which promoted the modernist doctrines on architecture and urban planning questioned. Eight buildings in this book are presented through drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani. ***** Giancarlo de Carlo first visited Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the University. This was the beginning of his lifetime engagement with the small town where he continued working over the next five decades. This book is part of the "Everything without Content" series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis, and it presents the work Giancarlo de Carlo built in Urbino in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of his involvement in Team 10 debates that challenging modernist doctrines on architecture and urbanism. The eight buildings in this book are presented in drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani