MCM Milan, Capital of the Modern. Actar Publishers

Lorenzo Degli Esposti (edited by), MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern, Actar Publishers, 2017.

MCM is the outcome of the activities of Padiglione Architettura, curated by Lorenzo Degli Esposti within Expo 2015 Belle Arti, programme by Regione Lombardia, ideated by Vittorio Sgarbi.

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the XX Century. The case of Milan is exemplary: Terragni and Razionalismo, the Reconstruction (Ponti, Moretti, BBPR, Viganò, etc.), the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors’ points of view.

The book MCM – Milano Capital of the Modern is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura, curated by Lorenzo Degli Esposti within EXPO Belle Arti, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between autonomy and dependence on specific place and historical time.
The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.

With contributions by:
Manuel Aires Mateus, Archizoom, Francesca B. Arista, Carlo Bertelli, Marco Biraghi, Camillo Boano, Davide Borsa, Mario Botta, Andrea Branzi, Marco Brizzi, Elisa C. Cattaneo, Nigel Coates, Giulia Maria Crespi, Ernesto d’Alfonso, Philippe Daverio, Michele De Lucchi, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Max Dudler, Peter Eisenman, Franco Farinelli, Yvonne Farrell, Luca Galofaro, Matteo Ghidoni, Vittorio Gregotti, Aimaro Isola, Ugo La Pietra, Adrian Lahoud, José Linazasoro, Sara Marini, Luca Molinari, Rafael Moneo, Antonio Monestiroli, Valerio Paolo Mosco, Gianni Pettena, Sergio Poretti, Franco Purini, Bruno Reichlin, Renato Rizzi, Nicola Russi, Denis Santachiara, Vittorio Sgarbi, Superstudio, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, Paola Viganò, Tiziana Villani, Daniele Vitale, Charles Waldheim, Alex Wall, et al.

With projects by:
Piero Portaluppi, Gio Ponti, Giovanni Muzio, Giuseppe Pagano, Giuseppe Terragni, Pietro Lingeri, Cesare Cattaneo, Luigi Moretti, Figini and Pollini, Franco Albini, Giovanni Romano, Pier Luigi Nervi, Asnago and Vender, Giulio Minoletti, Piero Bottoni, BBPR, Luigi Mattioni, Piero Bottoni, Guglielmo Mozzoni, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Giancarlo Malchiodi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Giandomenico Belotti, Francesco Gnecchi Ruscone, Giorgio Grassi, Vittorio Gregotti, Vico Magistretti, Oscar Niemeyer, Aldo Rossi, Marco Zanuso, Guido Canella, Gabetti e Isola, Sergio Crotti, Andrea Branzi, Antonio Monestiroli, Mauro Galantino, Michele De Lucchi, Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, Italo Rota, Remo Dorigati, CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Caputo Partnership, Lissoni Associati, Camillo Botticini, DAP studio, 5+1AA, OBR Open Building Research, Park Associati, Gianmatteo Romegialli, Piuarch, liverani/molteni, Morpurgo De Curtis ArchitettiAssociati, Caravatti_Caravatti Architetti, Attilio Stocchi, onsitestudio, baukuh, Scandurra Studio, MAB arquitectura, Francesco Librizzi Studio, et al.

With photographs by:
Paolo Monti, Mario Crimella, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Gabriele Basilico, Paolo Rosselli, Santi Caleca, Pino Musi, Marco Introini, Maurizio Montagna, Filippo Romano, Claudio Sabatino, Oskar Da Riz, Iwan Bann, Fernando Guerra / FG+SG, Christian Richters, Federico Brunetti, Miguel de Guzmán, Stefan Müller, Stefano Topuntoli, Matteo Piazza, Matteo Cirenei, Marco Menghi, Filippo Poli, Enrico Cano, Giada Ripa, Norman McGrath, Michael Moran/OTTO, Manuel González Vicente, Andrea Martiradonna, Stefano Graziani, Delfino Sisto Legnani, Giovanna Silva, Matteo Benedetti, Roberto Conte, Daniele Zerbi, Maurizio Petronio, et al.

MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern is kept in the following libraries:

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico; Alicante, Biblioteca Universidad de Alicante; Ann Arbor, University of Michigan; Athens (Georgia), University of Georgia; Atlanta, Emory University – Robert W. Woodruff Library; Austin, The University of Texas Library; Barcelona, Collegi d\’Arquitectes de Catalunya; Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Bibliotècnica; Berkeley, University of California Library; Bern, Universitätsbibliothek; Blacksburg, Virginia Tech Art & Architecture Library; Bryn Mawr, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library; Buffalo, University at Buffalo Library; Cesena, Alma Mater Studiorum, Biblioteca Centrale Campus di Cesena; Chicago, The University of Chicago Library; Chicago, The University of Illinois Library; Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler; Eugene, University of Oregon; Florence, Biblioteca Hertziana – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute; Florence, Biblioteca Scuola Architettura Università degli Studi di Firenze; Gainesville, University of Florida – Architecture / Fine Arts Library; Gold Coast (Australia), Bond University – John & Alison Kearney Library; Haymarket, Sidney University of Technology; Houston, Rice University – Fondren Library; London, The RIBA Library; Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute Library; Los Angeles, UCLA University of California Library; Los Angeles, USC University of South California Library; Melbourne, RMIT University, Swanston Library; Mendrisio, Biblioteca Accademia Architettura; Milan, Biblioteca Sormani; Milan, Politecnico di Milano, Bilbioteca Bovisa Candiani; Milan, Politecnico di Milano, Biblioteca Campus Leonardo; Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin Library; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Library; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; München, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften; New York City, Columbia University Library; New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art – Thomas J. Watson Library; Oberlin, Oberlin College Libraries; Oxford (OH), Miami University Library; Paris, Cité de l\’architecture et du patrimoine; Philadelphia, Temple University – Samuel Paley Library; Philadelphia, Penn University – Van Pelt Library; Pittsburg, Carnegie Mellon University Hunt Library; Princeton, Princeton University Library; San Antonio, University of Texas; San Pedro Garza Garcia (Mexico), Universidad de Monterrey; Seoul, Hyundai Card Library; Sewanee, Jessie Ball duPont Library; Sharjah, American University of Sharjah; St. Louis, Washington University – Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library; Stillwater, Oklahoma State University – Edmon Low Library; Syracuse, Syracuse University Library; Tempe, Arizona State University Library; Vancouver, The University of British Columbia; Washington, Library of Congress; Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Library; Zurich, ETH Bibliothek.

Title MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern
Editor Lorenzo Degli Esposti
Size 20,9 x 29,7 cm
Pages 608
Illustrations Color / Black and White
Cover Hardcover
Publication date November 2017
Published by Actar Publishers, New York
Price 45€ / £34 / $49.95
ISBN Italian edition MCM – Milano capitale del Moderno 978-1-945150-71-5
ISBN English edition MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern 978-1-945150-70-8 (translations by Stephanie Carwin)