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Author:   Lina Malfona
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781041014911

ISBN 10:   1041014910
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   02 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Paolo Portoghesi Introduction An Inquiry into Mannerism – Book Organization – Acknowledgements Part I. Maniera, Mannerism, and Other Manias 1. Maniera vs. Agency Good and Bad Manners in Architecture – All about the Author 2. Enigma and Ambiguity Mechanisms of Production – Seven Forms of Ambiguity 3. Variation and Haecceity Obsession with Possibilities 4. Imitation and Referentiality Bringing the Past Back into Play – Reasoned Copy – Non-referential 5. The Erudite and the Untamed Revolution – The Wonder and the Monster – Green Renewal Part II. Adolescent Architecture 6. The Mannerist Phase From Decorum to Vertigo – Architecture and Conspiracy – Between Refinement and Awkwardness 7. Postmodern Mannerism The VSB Perspective – Between Ecstasy and Orthodoxy – Academic Architecture 8. Chunky, Bizarre, Sophisticated The Peter Pan Syndrome Part III. Mannerism as a Method 9. Voluptuous Stillness Elasticity, or Adaptability – Disrupted Rationalism 10. Mute Façades, or Theatrical Backdrops Architecture as Sign 11. Parallel and Continuous Interior The Black Lodge – Bridge-figures and Other Spatial Structures – Alternative Realities and Atomization Repertoire Conclusions Paolo Portoghesi, The Idea of Mannerism

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Malfona finds examples of this mannerism in the work of many postmodern and contemporary architects, and through her examination, she offers a way to make sense of the architect’s position in today’s “infinitely expanded field.” Book Review in the Architectural Record.

Author Information

Lina Malfona, an architect with a PhD in Architectural Design, is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Pisa, where she established the research lab Polit(t)ico. The founder of the firm Malfona Petrini Architecture, she has designed and constructed an archipelago of buildings in the countryside north of Rome, and her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAXXI Museum of Rome. She recently taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University, and pursued her research thanks to a Visiting Scholarship from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), a Library Grant from the Getty Research Institute and a Fulbright grant at IFA (NYU), among others. Among her books, the most recent ones are: Unfinished. Sul non finito (2022), La condizione manierista (2021), Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago (2021), Building the Landscape (2018). Her writings have been published in Domus, Log and The Journal of Architecture, among others.

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