Italo Rota : Projects, Works, Visions 1997-2007

"One must consider Italo Rota's architecture as one does the product of a society of mature and sophisticated people. His is a world of signs, forms, ornaments, symbols, materials and senses that contribute to give life to generous visions for a not-so-distant future as well as to reflect on architecture's powerful yet deceptive role in contemporaneity. This volume provides the first authentic account through texts and images of one of the most interesting and provocative Italian architects active at the dawn of this new century. It is an account that intertwines public spaces, installations, places of learning and exchange with fleeting visions and locations that are pleasant to live in, designed and built in Italy and all over the world during the last twenty years. A story that is easy to enter, but no so easy to exit."--BOOK JACKET.

Luca Molinari is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of Naples.