Il Girasole. A House Near Verona - Hardcover
On the slope of a hill in northern Italy’s Po Basin stands Casa Girasole. Built in the early 1930s by the Italian architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli, this villa exemplifies the Italian style Futurismo in architecture. But what makes Casa Girasole truly extraordinary is its ability to follow the sun across the sky, rotating using an electric motor and providing its occupants with a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape.
The award-winning documentary film Il Girasole. A House Near Verona offers an inside look into Casa Girasole, guiding audiences across the grounds and through the various rooms of the villa, which has been entirely preserved in its original state. Filmmaker Christoph Schaub and architect Marcel Meili provide not just a history of this architectural feat but also a survey of the period in which it was conceived.
The DVD is complemented by a booklet with introductory essays and illustrations and will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century architecture.
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Christoph Schaub is one of Switzerland’s most accomplished filmmakers. His numerous films include dramas, comedies, and documentaries.
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- PublisherScheidegger and Spiess
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 3858819069
- ISBN 13 9783858819062
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages48
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. On the slope of a gentle hill on the northern boundary of the Po basin in Northern Italy stands a remarkable house. A modernist villa in the middle of a park, with its metallic facade shining above an enormous circular base of reddish stone. The extraordinary structure of the Casa Girasole (The Sunflower) follows the way of the sun across the sky - and the inhabitants' vista over the surrounding landscape - during the day, driven by an electric motor that can turn the entire house by 3600. It was built in the early 1930s by the Italian architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli and is an important example of Italian Futurismo in architecture. Preserved entirely in its original state, including the original furniture and curtains, it makes traceable the fascination for modern technology, but also the already slightly broken optimism, of that period. The documentary film I Girasole: A House Near Verona by Christoph Schaub and Marcel Meili enables the viewer to take part in a day at the house that turns around its vertical axis once. The movie introduces both the architecture and atmosphere of the building, its various rooms, furnishings and decoration. It gives a memoir of the house's history and of the time and feeling of life in which it was conceived. The film was awarded the 1st prize at the 1995 biennale Film and Architecture in Graz (Austria). The DVD is complemented by a booklet with introductory essays and illustrations. Film in original Italian version and alternative versions with English, German and French subtitles. Text in booklet in English and German. AUTHORS: Christoph Schaub, born 1958 in Zurich, is one of Switzerland's most eminent film directors. Besides of many drama and comedy movies and documentary films on variuos subjects he has realised several architecture films, featuring architects such as Peter Zumthor, Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Marcel Meili and Markus Peter, or the Brazilian capital Brasilia. Marcel Meili, born 1953, is senior partner of Meili Peter Architects, Zurich, and professor for urban planning at the ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute. SELLING POINTS: . Award-winning documentary film on an extraordinary experimental building . Casa Girasole is an important example of Italian Futurismo in architecture . The film has been shown at festivals but has not been available on VHS or DVD before 16 colour, 10 b/w illustrations Award-winning film documentary on an experimental house in Northern Italy from the 1930s - Casa Girasole is an important example of Italian Futurismo in architecture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783858819062
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