PublishedLettera Ventidue Edizioni, May 2020 |
ISBN9788862423601 |
FormatSoftcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions16.5cm × 24cm |
A logbook that in 40 days covers over 50,000km across 3 continents and 14 countries, visiting 20 cities and more than 300 buildings. A tale around the planisphere to discover the architecture designed by Renzo Piano and RPBW. The Grand Tour of the third millennium described through texts, sketches and images of three young architects to discover some of the most famous and acclaimed icons of architecture.
From Athens, the ancient city of foundation, to New York City, the acropolis of the third millennium, on this intense journey we will meet the architecture of Ando, Rogers, Rossi, Nuovel, Hadid, Big, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies, Wright, Foster, and many others. The RPWT is a journey of 40 days in the Pantheon of Architecture, two thousand years of history and awareness of the fragmentary reality of the world. AUTHOR: Thomas Pepino (Cuneo 1984), graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin (supervisor C. Ravagnati), he obtained a post-graduate Inter-University 2nd level Master's Degree in Architectural and Urban Design "Forms of Contemporary Living" at the University of Padua ICEA and Catania SDS (supervisors B.Messina, E. Narne). He studies and works with the research group directed by C. Ravagnati on the theme of the relationship between architecture and geography. He has been collaborating since 2016 with the Atelier of Composition and Urbanism of Prof. C. Ravagnati at the Degree Course in Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin. Member of the Focus group Public Works and Safety at the Order of Architects of Turin. He is Safety Trainer and Security Coordinator in temporary and mobile construction sites, responsible for asbestos-containing materials and UAV pilot. In 2010 he founded GreenBox, an independent cultural centre. He has curated exhibitions and organised BIM courses.
