Composing Architecture Through Context, Type and Figure

Riccardo Canella offers an empathetic, emotionally resonant, and partisan point of view, yet one that is neither sectarian nor bigoted, navigating through all the critical phases of modern architecture's emancipation. His work suggests that the advent of a self-aware, critical modernity capable of addressing contemporary challenges may not have overcomed, drowned in its own outmoded presumption and failures, but is still yet to arrive (from the Foreword by Davide Borsa).