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Paolo Rizzatto. Esercizi di metodo

Author: Riccardo Salvi
Publisher: Franco Angeli Edizioni
Printed in Italy
Date: March 2017
ISBN: 9788891751904
Softcover, 262 pages

Best known internationally for the objects he has been designing from the mid-1960s to the present day, Paolo Rizzatto grounds his architectural practice in the ontological concept of knowledge. Cities, buildings, interiors, and industrial products all stem from the same intention: to decode reality. They are the outcome of a unified methodology built on a simple yet powerful conviction—ethical in the highest sense—that design must balance historical, typological, functional, formal, technical, and economic components.

A son of the generation shaped by what has been described as “Artistic Rationalism”—defined by figures such as Franco Albini, Asnago and Vender, and Ignazio Gardella—Rizzatto pursues an idea of architecture as a craft rooted in a strong sense of civic responsibility. His work is distinguished by a consistent and coherent approach that has allowed him to trace a clearly recognizable cultural trajectory, enriched by a process of subtraction.

The works presented in this book aim not merely to showcase results, but to reveal the depth and complexity of a design method—one that, as Rizzatto puts it, places at its center, in an intentionally old-fashioned way, the human being.