This book, the first monograph on Leonardo Ricci's work, uses archive
materials, some of which have never been published, to investigate the
entire range of his activity by examining some of his most interesting
projects, and putting them into the context of the current architectural
panorama.
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His professional activity in the passionate climate of post-war
reconstruction in Italy, his communitarian projects and experimental
family residences, his book Anonymous (20th Century) in which he
analyzed with an "existentialist" approach his work in the areas of
painting, architecture, and urban planning, his visionary projects for
"Earth-City" macrostructures, his innovative approach to the spatial
organization of public institutions in his last projects, every step of
Ricci's work was always coherently connected to a basic aim: to
translate into an architectural form the dynamism of phenomena and the
incessant flow of life.
The book investigates Leonardo Ricci's practical and theoretical
approach to architectural design, giving this exceptional figure the
recognition he deserves within the panorama of Italian and international
architecture following the Second World War.