Fuksas: Building - Updated
Published on 15. January 2015
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-1-940291-50-5 (ISBN)
Description
The work of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas enjoys well-earned reputation for its artistic talent and its capacity to surprise with the most risky and spectacular projects up to 2014. With offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, the Fuksases have completed projects of contrasting scales and typologies: airports, urban planning, large infrastructure, housing projects. Their most recent include the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (left), Eur New Congress Centre in Rome, Lyon Confluence, Peres Peace House in Jaffa, St. Paolo Church in Foligno, MyZeil shopping mall in Frankfurt. The book also features their most emblematic creations like the Armani Fifth Avenue in NYC, Zenith Music Hall in Strasbourg, New Trade Fair in Milan and Ferrari Operational Headquarters and Research Centre in Maranello. Interviews and several texts enhance the publication.
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Massimiliano Fuksas (*Rome, 1944) is a major international architect with offices in Rome, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt and China. For many years he has dedicated special attention to the study of urban problems and, in particular, to the suburbs. Four key considerations drive his work: community, culture, spirituality and peace. Some of his major works include the Maison des Arts in Bordeaux, the research centre for Ferrari in Maranello, the Milan Trade Fair, the Zenith Music Hall in Strasbourg and the Peres Centre for Peace in Israel. He is also a professor at several universities and has published widely. In 2000, he directed the VII Venice Biennale of Architecture titled Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.