Agostino Magnaghi (Livorno, 1937) Ligurian-Piedmontese architect, has carvedhis own unexpected and entirely autonomous path through the sometimes shady panorama of the sophisticated Turin school. His work as an architect and university teacher, which has lasted over fifty years, confirms his profile of studier of urban phenomena involved in the main transformations that the city of Turin has undergone since the second world war. Both in the innovative character of his designs and in his restoration activity, Magnaghi shows «a coherence that, far from being ostentatious, is malleable and subtle» and with it «the capacity to absorb circumstances and situations to make of them poetic material and message». This monograph, besides describing his works in depth, also presents the pretext for reflection on Italian architecture from the end of the nineteen sixties to the present day: the narrative is told by means of his works, projects and writing, in a changeable journey that achieves, in its mature phase, the acceptance of the principle of art autre and «brilliant randomness», seen through a cheerful, pantheistic vision of the world.

Agostino Magnaghi (Livorno, 1937), architetto ligure-piemontese, testimonia una declinazione inattesa e del tutto autonoma, nel panorama, talora umbratile, della raffinata Scuola Torinese. L’opera di progettista e docente universitario, perdurata oltre cinquant’anni, conferma il profilo di studioso dei fenomeni urbani impegnato nelle principali trasformazioni che, dal secondo Dopoguerra, hanno interessato la città di Torino. Sia nei progetti di carattere innovativo, sia nel recupero, Magnaghi dimostra «[…] una coerenza non ostentata, ma duttile e sommessa» e con essa «la capacità di recepire le circostanze e le occasioni per farne materia poetica e messaggio». Questa monografia, oltre a costituire un’indagine approfondita delle sue opere, è anche pretesto per una riflessione sull’architettura italiana dalla fine degli anni Sessanta del secolo XX ad oggi: la narrazione, attraverso opere, progetti e scritti, d’un percorso inquieto che approda, nella sua fase più matura, all’accettazione del principio de l’Art autre, la «casualità geniale», nella misura d’una rasserenata, panteistica, visione del mondo.

Agostino Magnaghi architetto. Cinque progetti scelti e cinquant'anni di architettura / Five selected projects and fity years of architecture

MILAN, ANDREINA
2016

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Agostino Magnaghi (Livorno, 1937) Ligurian-Piedmontese architect, has carvedhis own unexpected and entirely autonomous path through the sometimes shady panorama of the sophisticated Turin school. His work as an architect and university teacher, which has lasted over fifty years, confirms his profile of studier of urban phenomena involved in the main transformations that the city of Turin has undergone since the second world war. Both in the innovative character of his designs and in his restoration activity, Magnaghi shows «a coherence that, far from being ostentatious, is malleable and subtle» and with it «the capacity to absorb circumstances and situations to make of them poetic material and message». This monograph, besides describing his works in depth, also presents the pretext for reflection on Italian architecture from the end of the nineteen sixties to the present day: the narrative is told by means of his works, projects and writing, in a changeable journey that achieves, in its mature phase, the acceptance of the principle of art autre and «brilliant randomness», seen through a cheerful, pantheistic vision of the world.
2016
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