Edited by:Filippo Angelucci e Domenico Potenza
Editions FrancoAngeli, Milan 2012
Necklace: Architectures of Technology // Architecture of Technology
A cross-section of the last ten years of activity of the ABDR studio (Maria Laura Arlotti, Michele Beccu, Paolo Desideri, Filippo Raimondo), a significant testimony of the now achieved ability to give back concreteness to the project with the enhancement of its constructive dimension, which expresses its most qualified outcome.
Edited by:Gianluigi Mondaini e Domenico Potenza
Editions EdilstampaRome 2014
Illustrated Italian/English edition
Series: The Construction Industry Notebooks
A monograph dedicated to the work of the international firm ABDR associated architects.
Author:Dario Costs
Volume 195 of Architectural Documents
Mondadori Electa, Illustrated edition
Electa Architecture, 2015
Formed by four partners trained in Rome - Maria Laura Arlotti, Michele Beccu, Paolo Desideri, Filippo Raimondo - the ABDR studio is an example of an international office of contemporary architecture on the Italian scene. Since 1982, the work has been articulated on many overlapping levels. From the commitment to the design interpretation of the infrastructure, in the dialogue with engineering and the ability to meet the technological challenge, to the urban dimension of the actions on the contemporary city resolved through the architectural scale, to the interventions on the theme of the public building, to the attention to the delicate relationship between new and old, each project deals with increasingly complex occasions. This volume documents the most significant episodes of this great body of work and constructs the first complete registry of projects and works from over thirty years, from the foundation of the studio to the present day. Dario Costi rereads and orders these materials, bringing reflection on the themes underlying the architectures, investigating the links between theoretical reflection and design experimentation induced by the permanent critical dialogue with the contemporary city in its complexity and construction. An essay by Claudia Conforti reconstructs and contextualises the intellectual and professional vicissitudes of the four partners from their youthful years in Rome to the international affirmation of our days.
Text edited by:Matteo Zambelli
Photo: Benoit Bost
At Living 594May 2020, the draft of the Casa Voyageurs station in Casablanca.
Project ABDR + Yassir Khalil architectes.
Text edited by:Marzia Marandola, Marco Burrascano, Ettore Rocca
Quodlibet, 2021
In 1932 Marcello Piacentini was commissioned with the project for the Magna Grecia Museum; work was repeatedly interrupted until 1956, when it was inaugurated. In the early 1980s, the museum was enriched with the Riace Bronzes and the Wrecks of Porticello, assuming media prominence and a considerable increase in visitors. In 2009, a renovation was promoted in view of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, thus beginning a profound transformation by the ABDR Architetti Associati studio and the COBAR firm which ended in 2016, the year of the inauguration of the new National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria. During the restoration and expansion in 2010 Alfredo Pirri designed the work permanent 'Piazza'. The volume, with three essays by Marzia Marandola, Marco Burrascano and Ettore Rocca, and with an extensive iconographic apparatus, describes and analyses the recent phase of the Museum's life: its new layout, the refurbishment of the covered courtyard with Alfredo Pirri's intervention and the opening of new spaces, up to its renewed relationship with the city.
Taken from Quodlibet
