Bruno Zevi

Bruno Zevi (22 January 1918 - 9 January 2000) was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.

Works

• Verso un’architettura organica: saggio sullo sviluppo del pensiero architettonico negli ultimi cinquant'anni, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1945. (Italian)
  • Towards an Organic Architecture, London: Faber & Faber, 1950. (English)

• editor, Frank Lloyd Wright, Milan: Il Balcone, 1947; 2nd ed., 1954. (Italian)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright, Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1956. (Spanish)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright, Zurich: Artemis, 1980. (German)

• Erik Gunnar Asplund, Milano: Il Balcone, 1948. (Italian)
  • Erik Gunnar Asplund, Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1957. (Spanish)

• Saper vedere l’architettura: saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1948. (Italian)
  • Architecture as Space. How to look at Architecture, New York: Horizon Press, 1957; Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Excerpt. (English)
  • Be-ḥalalah shel ardikhalut : beḥinot ṿe-darkhe-histaklut, Yerusalem: Mosad Byaliḳ, 1957, 152 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Apprendre à voir l'architecture, trans. Lucien Trichaud, Paris: Minuit, 1959, 134 pp., PDF, ARG. (French)
  • Pogledi na arhitekturo, intro. Stane Mikuž, trans. Bogomir Stopar, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1959, 191 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Az építészet megismerése, trans. Gerő Laszló, Budapest: Muszaki Könyvkiadó, 1964, 157 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Kako gledati arhitekturu, trans. Branko Aleksić, Belgrade: Klub mladih arhitekata, 1966, 82 pp. (Serbian)
  • Jak se dívat na architekturu, trans. Libuše Macková, Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1966. (Czech)
  • Kūkan to shiteno kenchiku [空間としての建築], trans. Kurita Isamu, Tokyo: Seidōsha, 1966. (Japanese)
  • Cum să înţelegem arhitectura: studiu asupra interpretării arhitecturii ca spaţiu, preface Gh. Curinschi, trans. Cezar Lăzărescu, Sanda Şora and Lucian Ghelerter, Bucharest: Tehnică, 1969, 284 pp, Scribd. (Romanian)
  • Saber ver la arquitectura: Ensayo sobre la interpretación espacial de la arquitectura, trans. Cino Calcaprina and Jesús Bermejo Goday, Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1976; 1981. (Spanish)
  • Saber ver a arquitetura, Sao Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1978; 5th ed., 1996. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Jian zhu kong jian lun: ru he pin ping jian zhu [建筑空间论 : 如何品评建筑], Beijing: Zhongguo jian zhu gong ye chu ban she, 1985, 144 pp. (Chinese)
  • Mimariyi görmeyi öğrenmek, trans. H. Demir Divanlıoğlu, İstanbul: Birsen Yayınevi, 1990, 133 pp. (Turkish)
  • Znati gledati arhitekturu: ogled o interpretaciji prostora u arhitekturi, trans. Željka Čorak, Zagreb: Lukom, 2000, 221 pp. (Croatian)
  • Ru he kan jian zhu [如何看建築], Taibei Shi: Tian yuan cheng shi wen hua shi ye you xian gong si, 2001. (Chinese)

• Storia dell’architettura moderna, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1950; 1975. (Italian)
  • Historia de la arquitectura moderna, Barcelona: Poseidon, 1980, xv+681 pp. (Spanish)
  • Povijest moderne arhitekture: udžbenik za studij arhitekture, trans. Zorana Sokol, Zagreb: Tehnička knjiga / Arhitektonski fakultet, 2006. (Croatian)

• Poetica dell'architettura neoplastica, Milan: Tamburini, 1953. (Italian)
  • Poética de la arquitectura neoplástica, trans. Liliana Kainis, Buenos Aires: V. Lerú, 1960. (Spanish)

• Richard Neutra, Milan, 1954, 157 pp. (Italian)

• Architectura in nuce, Venice and Rome: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1960. (Italian)

• Biagio Rossetti architetto ferrarese, Torino: Einaudi, 1960. (Italian)

• Spazi dell’architettura moderna, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1973. (Italian)
  • Espacios de la arquitectura moderna, Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1980. (Spanish)

• Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura. Guida al codice anticlassico, Torino: Einaudi, 1973. (Italian)
  • The Modern Language of Architecture, University of Washington Press, 1978, 256 pp; New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. (English) Review: C Jameson (JSAH 1981).
  • El lenguaje moderno de la arquitectura: guía al código anticlásico, trans. Roser Berdagué, Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1978, 277 pp. (Spanish)
  • "Le code anticlassique", in Zevi, Le langage moderne de l'architecture, Paris: Bordas, 1981; Paris: Dunod, 1991, pp 11-104. Trans. of pp 1-84 of Italian edition. (French)
  • A linguagem moderna da arquitectura, Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1984. (Portuguese)
  • Hē monterna glōssa tēs architektonikēs [Η μοντέρνα γλώσσα τής αρχιτεκτονικής], Athens: Nephelē, 1986. (Greek)
  • Xian dai jian zhu yu yan [现代建筑语言], Beijing : Zhongguo jian zhu gong ye chu ban she, 1986. (Chinese)
  • Codul anticlasic: limbajul modern al arhitecturii, trans. Ana Gabriela Tabacu, Bucharest: Paideia, 2000, 72 pp. (Romanian)

• Architettura e storiografia: le matrici antiche del linguaggio moderno, Torino: Einaudi, 1974. (Italian)
  • Arquitectura e historiografía, trans. Zara S. Ratto, Buenos Aires: Víctor Lerú, 1958, 114 pp. (Spanish)
  • "Architecture et historiographie", in Zevi, Le langage moderne de l'architecture, trans. Marie-Jose Hoyet, Paris: Bordas, 1981; Paris: Dunod, 1991, pp 105-151. (French)

• Cronache di architettura, 24 vols., saggi 1-1276, Rome and Bari: Laterza; 2nd ed., 1978. (Italian)

• Editoriali di architettura (Architetti e linguggio, Crtici e liguistica, Paesaggi e citta, Avanguardia e restaurazione, Design come ragione civile, Not quite architecture), Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1979. (Italian)

• editor, with P. Portoghesi, Michelangiolo architetto, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1964. (Italian)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Zevi