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This book is the first one to be devoted to the « radical years » of Ettore Sottsass Jr. Considered as one of the most important designers of the XXth century, and present in the collections of the greatest museums, Sottsass, who is the winner of a lot of prizes, has never given up developping a practice that is in the crossing of art, architecture and design. He is also a model that cannot be ignored for the young generations of architects.

 

An exemplary synthesis of the research pursued by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio in the Architecture Principe group, with the “oblique function”, Saint-Bernadette of Banlay (1966) experiments with a new rapport between man an his environment.  Served by a series of texts and hitherto unpublished images, this book traces the history and impact of a 20th century masterpiece, which looms as a milestone in criticism of modernity...