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A principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, -Gritty Brit- Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate, focus on architectural practice outside the tradition of Modernism. Some of Caruso's key writings, gathered here, include -Sigurd Lewerentz and a Material Basis for Form- (1997), -The Tyranny of the New- (1998) and -The Emotional City- (2000).
Adam Caruso was born in 1962 and studied architecture at McGill University, Montreal. He and Peter St. John...

This is the first book in English to focus on the work of the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-86), whose firm, Asnago Vender, transformed midcentury Milan. At the end of World War II, Milan was architecturally stagnant, with few recent constructions of interest to complement its historic core. Soon, however, Milan was the center of a number of remarkably creative architectural visions--not least of them that of Asnago Vender. Through their many building commissions, to which they brought a clean, modernist aesthetic, they helped to create the vibrant,...