Abstract :
Currently one of the most active offices in Rome, Arlotti-Beccu-Desideri-Raimondo (ABDR) has seven major projects under way or at the point of completion. Massimo Locci explains why, despite being theoretically and methodologically rigorous, the practiceʹs work cannot be readily categorised. Unique in its combination of a purist Modernist language with an aptitude for expressive informality, the office is also proactive in its adoption of bioclimatic technologies and its understanding of new communication models. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Pier Luigi Nervi (1979) , Gino Pollini , ABDR with N Cazzato , ABDR with Maire Engineering and V Testa , Constantino Dardi , Rome , Mies van der Rohe , Renzo Piano , Tiburtina High-Speed Rail Station , science and the art of building , and Luigi Moretti , M Merlo and E Calabrese , B1 subway-line station , Alessandro Anselmi , due for completion 2008 , Sergio Musmeci , Luigi Figini , Lecce and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto in Sicily , Rome due for completion 2008 , Massimiliano Fuksas , Pio Piacentini , Piazza Gondar Station , Franco Purini , urban lighthouse , ABDR with SAC SpA and IGIT , Norman Foster , Nomentano and Pietralata neighbourhoods , Project for the reconstruction of the Serra-ex-Piacentini greenhouse , Herzog & de Meuron , Piazza Annibalino station , Palazzo delle Esposizione , Jean Nouvel , Pianoיs Auditorium , Rome , Rem Koolhaas , Zaha Hadid , due for completion 2007 , the Dutch School , Odile Decq , Johannes Duiker , the Lapidarium at the Palazzo Venezia Museum , Richard Meier , paper architecture , Richard Neutra , new residential neighbourhood in Tormarancia , Fuksas , Paolo Desideri , Adalberto Libera , new office park on Via Tiburtina
