WHY ATLAS?
May be because we wanted to distinguish divisare from the web that is condemned to a sort of vertical communication, always with the newest architecture at the top of the page, as the "cover story," "the focus."
Content that was destined, just like the oh-so-new architecture that had just preceded it a few hours earlier, to rapidly slide down, day after day, lower and lower, in a vertical plunge towards the scrapheap of page 2.
So we began to build divisare not vertically, but horizontally.
Our model was the bookcase, on whose shelves we have gathered and continue to collect hundreds and hundreds of publications by theme. Every Collection in our Atlas tells a particular story, conveys a specific viewpoint from which to observe the last 20 years of contemporary architecture. A long, patient job of cataloguing, done by hand: image after image, project after project, post after post. Behind all this there is the certainty that we can do better than the fast, distracted web we know today, where the prevailing business model is: "you make money only if you manage to distract your readers from the contents of your own site." With divisare we want to offer the possibility, instead, of perceiving content without distractions. No "click me," "tweet me, "share me,” "like me." No advertising. banners, pop—ups or other distracting noise.
It is a different idea of the web, which we might call slow web.
Instead of the fast, distracting web, we prefer a slow, careful one. Instead of information hastily received, we prefer knowledge calmly absorbed. This is why we love to publish books and encourage you to put down your device, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy a high-quality read the old-fashioned way.
Divisare Books are not available at bookstores or elsewhere. The only way to get your issue is to buy it here. All of our issues are extremely limited editions. Don’t be late!
"The design on paper is a means to an end, a very important one no doubt, but still a tool to build with. As an end in itself, it is not architecture. It becomes something else, A painting, a drawing or a metaphor. Above all, I consider myself a 'builder' in the ancient and everlasting sense of the term." Giovanni Muzio Divisare box set #31 is an homage to the architectural legacy by Giovanni Muzio, one of the most productive and influential Italian architects of the Twentieth Century. His residential and public buildings shaped the look of modern Milan. In a night tour around the city, Milanese photographer Luca Sironi offers us his personal look to five housing blocks by Muzio on edge between seductive voyeurism and distract passing by. Aside, a short collection of writings collects an interview with Muzio and a critical essay about his houses by Giorgio Muratore.
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"Order is not image, but a constructive order based on the principle of architecture as a system, which is able to hold together, in balance, in medias res, the reasons of the city and those of the architectural object. To do this, the language becomes terse, generic, eschewing that neurosis of invention at all costs that – if we look closely – is the limit of contemporary modernism." Vincenzo Corvino & Giovanni Multari Box Set #21 presents Italian photographer Mario Ferrara's photo essay on the architecture by Neapolitan firm Corvino + Multari. Close friends, the authors participate in the narration of the context where the five projects are located. Rural and urban landscapes of Campania region is the natural palimpsest of Corvino + Multari's works. Mario Ferrara's eyes capture the dialogue between architecture and environment evoking intangible tensions of each locus. In the same way, architects insist on an architectural approach rooted in the daily experimentation of matter and space transform ordinary gestures into masterly designs.
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INTRODUCING DIVISARE BOOKS
We tried. Lord knows we tried. But after more than 20 years spent in the transient, fleeting and contingent world of the internet no amount of pivoting or faking could squeeze a proudly independent online magazine into a conventional printed periodical.
So if you expect a traditional architecture magazine, DIVISARE BOOKS is not for you. But if you're looking for something more fluid and flexible, you may be open and inquiring enough to appreciate the work we are doing.
DIVISARE BOOKS is a high-quality, independent editorial project, a modular publication dedicated to architecture documents, a constantly growing archipelago of monographic issues each tackling a different topic: drawings collections, photographic surveys, visual essays, short writings, projects, etc.
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All of our issues are extremely limited editions. Don’t be late!
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Our editorial project it’s about switching off and getting away from the screen. That’s why we don’t offer a digital version.
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Printed with vegetable inks on 100% recycled Cyclus Offest thick paper. It even smells good.
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Our editorial project is published and printed in Rome. Each issue is shipped in strong corrugated cardboard box out of our distribution centre based in Berlin, Germany.
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STRONG PACKAGING: The strong corrugated cardboard is pre-creased for easy and secure wraparound packaging.
Italian Handmade slipcase, 1500 Microns Board Covered with Graphite Wibalin Buckram, a strong, durable paper covering material produced in Switzerland. Inside: Arancio Sirio Fedrigoni produced in Italy. The case is finished with the DIVISARE logo hot stamped in silver.
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DIVISARE BOOKS no. 37 to 42 are visual essays by Danish architect photographer Rasmus Hjortshøj who, in his own proverbial desaturated colour palette, pays tribute to the architectures of Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, MVRDV, SANAA, and the landscape in the West Coast of Jutland.
ISSUE #38
Second Edition September 2017
First Edition February 2017
40 pages - 14.8 x 21 cm
Colour Digital
Staple Bound
Fine Recycled Paper
Edition of 200
100 to be sold individually
100 to be sold in the Boxed Set:
“RASMUS HJORTSHØJ - ARCHITECTURAL REPORTAGES”
ISSN 2532-523X
ISSUE #38
Second Edition September 2017
First Edition February 2017
40 pages - 14.8 x 21 cm
Colour Digital
Staple Bound
Fine Recycled Paper
Edition of 200
100 to be sold individually
100 to be sold in the Boxed Set:
“RASMUS HJORTSHØJ - ARCHITECTURAL REPORTAGES”
ISSN 2532-523X
