Italo Rota

A multidisciplinary journey, discovering a great architect’s reflections on the contemporary, collected in two books devoted to projects and drawings respectively.

Italo Rota is certainly a multifaceted figure on the Italian and international scene, characterized by a very personal creative approach. This double volume enriches the Scheiwiller book series and faithfully reflects, starting with the original layout, the architect’s mode of critical thinking, characterized by multidisciplinarity. Consisting of two perfectly integrated and complementary books, it explores the themes most dear to Rota and always present in his work: the nature-artifice dichotomy, attention to the environment, reflection on living, and sustainability.

A large-format volume enhances an image-based narrative of Italo Rota’s work, discovering his most significant projects, presented with an extensive iconographic set of drawings, photographs and infographics.

A fanzine titled From Earth to Earth dedicated to a collection of his drawings and accompanied by reflections and dialogues on such foundational topics of Rota’s work as the environment, the human-nature relationship, and the space of living.