Eupalino. Cultura della Citta & della Casa Rivista Trimestriale. City & House Culture Quarterly magazine. (9 issues in 8 volumes – missing nr.1 + 12).

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Roma, “L’ERMA” di Bretschneider, 1984-1988

Fine

Large folios. A very fine set, except for nr. 6 that has a minor dent to the top of spine. Text in English and Italian. 

Roma: “L’ERMA” di Bretschneider, 1984 - 1988.

With contributions by: Aldo Rossi Jacques Lucan Italo Calvino Giorgio Agamben Carlo Aymonino Achille Bonito Oliva Michael Graves Christian Norberg Schulz Guglielmo Bilancioni Léon Krier Hans Hollein Peter Eisenmann Joseph Hoffmann.

Nr. 2. Primavera 1984. 56 pages of which 2 foldout pages, illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover an image of a frame designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

- First edition. Content: Pasquale Chessa – Giorgio Agamben: The Philosophy of the period; Antonio de Bonis: Under two cultures; Valerio Magrelli: The shape of the house; Paolo Portoghesi + Ludovico Quaroni: Return to the city; Pietro Gallina: A Temple on the water; Carlo Aymonino: The Rome Colosso; Pierluigi Eroli: Through the eyes of William Morris; William Morris: News from nowhere; Gugliemo Bilancioni + Gian Paolo Consoli: The tale of an ancient; Achille Bonito Oliva: Assassin the hope of art; Francesco Cellini + Enrico Valeriai: Images for the Biennale; Constantino Dardi: The scene of things.

Nr. 3. 1984. 56 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a decorative detail of the facade of the Palazzo Farnese. 

- First edition. Content: Gerard George Lemaire + George Cargouste: Mythe et Nécessité; Henry N. Cobb : Portland Museum of Art ; Michael Graves : The Humana Building ; Paolo Portoghesi : Parallel Signs ; Francesco D’Amato : Machado & Silvetti; Valeria Magrelli: Stations: Giorgio Caproni; Guglielmo Bilancioni: The Rock of Cities; Pietro Gallina: geometry and ruin; Angela Marino: Rafaello: Architetural painting; Christian Norberg Schulz: Heidegger sull’Architettura; Costantino Dardi: The House of Things. 

Nr. 4. 1984. 56 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a plate from Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture (Isaac Ware, London, 1738).

- First edition. Content: Francesco Perego + Andrea Carandini: the fad of Archeology; Robert A.M. Stern; Giancarlo Priori: The Living frame; Giancarlo Leoncilli: The Transarent Velarium; Luca Quattrocchi: Giovanni Michelazzi’s Intimate Architecture; Arduino Cantafora: Rome as a Painting: Paul Valéry: Paradoxe sur l’Architecte; Sergio Terracina: Valery Prophet of the Art Nouveau?; Pietro Gallina: The Silent Structures: Valerio Magrelli: “The Bedroom Chamber” by Attilo Bertolucci; Fabio Mariano: The Architectural Alphabet by J.D. Steingruber; Guglielmo Bilancioni: Emblemata Moderna.

Nr. 5. 1985. 64 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a reproduction of Arduino Cantafora’ s painting “Memories”.

- First edition. Content: Goffredo Petrassi + Pietro Callina: The Mechanical Nightingale; Antonio de Bonis: Ricardo Bofill/The Force of Clarity; Dario passi’s City; Claudio d’Amato: Plain Chant; Francesco Cellini + Nicoletta Cosentino: A Dream, A desire...; Valerio Magrelli: Antonio Porta/Between Body and Matter; Guglielmo Bilancioni: Michel de Klerk/one’s own Household (Eigen Haard); Gianni Contessi: Eulogy of Old-Fashionedness; Fulvio Irace: Alessandro Mendini/ Under the Sign of Doubt; Costantino Dardi: Platonic Solids; Gian Paolo Consoli: Bade Runner: at the gates of Tannhauser; Egidio Eronico: in this future/notes on Philip K. Dick; Paolo Portoghesi: Antonio Donghi Painter.

Nr. 6. 1985. 64 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a reproduction of a drawing by Francesco Cellini. Small knick towards top of spine,  otherwise fiene.

- First edition. Content: Gianni Vattimo + Carlo Olmi: Philosophy of the City; Vincenzo Pavan: Léon Krier’s Theophanies; Léon Krier: An Idea of a City; Léon Krier: the Completion of Washington; Alessandro Anselmi: the Necessary Myth; Giancarlo Priori: Giannfranco Caniggia/ Method and continuity; Nicola Pagliara: Marble Tv’s; Luigi Serafini: The Architect Bird; Lucia Bisi: Tomaso Buzzi/ Stone Dreams; Constantino Dardi: The House of Art; Egisto Macchi Domenico Guaccero; Valerio Magrelli: Franco Fortini: Landscape with Snake. 

Nr. 7. 1986. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a reproduction of a drawing by Dario Passo. 

- First edition. Content: Conversazione tra Giovanni Michelucci & Paolo Zermani: The Wealth of Ideas; Helmut Jahn: Gothic Crystals; Paolo Portoghesi: Luciano Semerani/ An Ordered Complexity; Luciano Semerani: Portraits pour une ville. Le bateau Blanc; Gianni Eronico: Gabetti & Isola/The Courtesy of Blades; Egidio Eronico: Sandr Giani/ Emotional Architecture; Stefania Tuzi: Giancarlo Priori/Like Words; Paolo Zermani: Theatres of Other Times; Valerio Magrelli: Mario Luzi/ For the Baptism of Our Fragments; Giancarlo Priori: Hans Hollein/Dream & Reality; Bruno Adorni: Alesso Tramello/Heir to the Lombard Bramante Tradition; Paolo Portoghesi: Gino Marotta/ between Art and Science. 

Nr. 8. 1987. 63 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a reproduction of Purini’s ‘Barbaric Skyscraper’, 1984. 

- First edition. Content: Attilo Bertocluci & Paolo Zermani: The Province of Thins; Peter Eisenmann: Conflicts of the Modern trend; Costantiono Dardi: The Space Plots; Antonino Terranova: Franco Purini and Laura Thermes/ Problematic Intersections; Romano Burelli: Type ad Pollution; Paolo Portoghesi: Apollodoro; Giancarlo Priori: Michael Graves/ The return to the Archetypes; Piergiacomo Bucciarelli: Fritz Höger/The expressionist Verb; Guglielmo Bilancioni: Giuseppe sacconi/The Tomb of the Unkown Soldier; Valerio Magrelli: Carlo Bettochi/ Words and Feelings; Maurizio Marini: Marco Rossati: The Allegories and Enigmas. 

Nr. 9/10. 1988. 92 pages of which 2 foldout pages. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Stiff wrappers with on front cover a reproduction of Franz Prati’s ‘o seasons, o castles’, 1986. 

- First edition. Content: Oswald Mathias Ungers & Mario Pisani: The flight of Reality; Paolo Portoghesi: Roger Ferri/The Roads of Imagination; Alessandro Latour & Tom Stetz: James Stewart Polshek/The integrity pf Architecture; Giancarlo Priori: Robert Stern/To rediscover one’s Idols; Stefania Tuzi: Robert venture/Historical Sense; Gérard-Georges Lemaire: Paolo Farina/The Architect’s Dream; Claudio D’Amato: A. Mason. V. Pavan, C. Roncoletta/Architectural reasonings; Sandro Benedetti: The essence of Truth; Paolo Porthogesi: Claudio Dini/The identification in nature; Guglielmo Bilancioni: Joseph Hoffmann: The Sphinx of The Modern Art; Christian Norberg Schulz: The Need for a Contemporary Architectural Language; Mario Messins: The Neoromantic Sound; Sergio Terracina: Silvia Ferretti/The Demon of Memory.