Architetture luminose e apparecchi per illuminazione
Architetture luminose e apparecchi per illuminazione
Giovanni Canesi and Antonio Cassi Ramelli
Milan: Ulricho Hoepli,1934.
An important early treatment of modernist lighting divided into three categories: exterior lighting, interior lighting, and lighting fixtures. Architetture Luminose celebrates the “union of light and architecture” through photographic prints and technical drawings. Along with more than eighty images of Art Deco lighting fixtures, the book features work by Hood & Fouillhoux, Rudolf Fränkel, Erich Mendelsohn, Paul Philippe Cret, and Joseph Urban.
Italian projects and designers dominate, yet the book’s scope is international, including lighting concepts in cities from Stockholm to Genoa. Illustrations showcase concert halls, retail establishments, hotels, pools, restaurants, telegraph poles, and outdoor fountains. Highlighted American projects include New York City landmarks Radio City Music Hall, the New School’s Auditorium, and examples from the 1933 Century of Progress International Exhibition in Chicago.