Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
Fondamenta
In the Venetian lagoon, the fondamenta are the reinforced margins that define and delimit the islands on which buildings are constructed. This series has the same mission: to define the basis of architectural culture and the framework for the debate that surrounds it.
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The first French edition of the theoretical dialogue of the Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), one of the most radical texts in the history of modern architectural theory.