Manfredo di Robilant

Books 

Contro il metodo in architettura. Episodi e temi dall’Architectural Association, 1968-1982 (Quodlibet 2019)   [Against method in architecture. The Architectural Association 1968-1982]

elements of architecture – ceiling (Marsilio 2014), with C-Lab, Rem Koolhaas, Amo, Harvard GSD, Irma Boom

elements of architecture – window (Marsilio 2014), with Niklas Maak, Rem Koolhaas, Amo, Harvard GSD, Irma Boom 

Essays 

“Gridding off the sky. The roof of the Neue Nationalgalerie” in: J. Jäger, C. von Marlin (eds.), Neue Nationalgalerie (Deutsche Kunstverlag, 2021) 

“The Aestheticization of Mechanical Systems: Gio Ponti’s Montecatini Headquarters, Milan, 1936–39” in: «Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians», Vol. 77 No. 2, June 2018 

“Die Ursuppe zeitgenössischer Architecktur und die Schwierigkeit, von ihr zu wegzuschwimmen. Globalismus, Radikalismus und Staunen” in: «Manege für Architektur», 2016  [“Wonder, globalism, radicalism. The primordial soup of contemporary architecture and the difficulty to swim away from it”]

“Die Entrückung der Architektur. Oder: eine neue kontemplative Tendenz” in: «Arch+», n. 214, 2014 [“Looking and locking architecture in a room. Or, a new contemplative tendency”]

“Parallel elements, divergent views” in: «World Architecture», November 2014

“Architects aren’t gourmets, and chefs aren’t architects. What the history of 20th century architecture can teach about the relationship between modern buildings and food cultures” in: G. Celant (ed.), Arts & Foods (Electa, 2014)  

“Looking up. Nationalism and internationalism in ceilings, 1850s-2000s” in: R. Quek, D. Deane (eds.), Nationalism and Architecture (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012)