The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design

by Andrea Branzi

Book Overview

The Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design. Covering two centuries of avantgarde designs, but concentrating on the 1950s to the present, the book looks at architecture and urban design as well as graphic, interior, exhibit, industrial, and fashion design. It discusses the role that such magazines as Casabella, Domus, and Modo have played on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262022117
• ISBN13: 9780262022118
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 11.3"