Publications
Urban Center Metropolitano promotes the publication of books either self-produced or produced by others which give an account of the reflections in progress on the changes undergone by Torino at large and its metropolitan area in particular, trying to render an organic picture of the issues involving the urban territory in its many aspects: from the different architectures to the public spaces, from the projects to the professions involved in the physical, social and economical processes.
The numbers of the university system in Piedmont: actions, results, perspective
The Regional Office of Innovation, Research and Universities in collaboration with the Regional Observatory for the University and for the right to university study and the Urban Center Metropolitano presents the new relationship that will photograph the current state of the university system in Piedmont, with special attention to the trend the last five shares.
Urban Center Metropolitano has edited the report on university construction, "shows" locations and structures in Piedmont and projects recently completed or under construction.
L'edilizia universitaria [pdf]
Torino 1984 - 2008. Architecture Atlas
By curators Michele Bonino, Giulietta Fassino, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Carlo Spinelli
Photogrpahs by Laura Cantarella
Published by Allemandi & C.
An Atlas on architecture to know over 150 buildings built from 1984 to date in Torino and its metropolitan area, with a close look to the projects in the pipeline which will feature the city in the next years. A path that unravels across 10 great themes of urban transformation each introduced by eight short critical essays: from works in the historical centre to the redevelopment of the outskirts, from the great restoration building sites to the vacant industrial areas, from projects involving the Spine to the Olympic buildings. The atlas also comprises the description of the strategies involving the university settlement, the changing housing policies and the new architectural interpretations of the territory’s identity.
Torino011. Biography of a city
By curators Carlo Olmo and Arnaldo Bagnasco
Mondadori Electa, 2008
The catalogue accompanies the exhibition which took place in Torino, organised at Officine Grandi Riparazioni on the occasion of the 2008 Architects World Congress.
The curators have brought about a debate and a more explicit explanation of the thesis constructed during the exhibition’s conception process, turning the catalogue into another tool of urban democracy, a topic which underlies the whole exhibition. The visitors/readers are thus stimulated to overcome the simple role of user and is given the the possibility to understand the choices and the paths which have led to the 'condensers' of topics and ideas composing the exhibition.
Essays by: Carlo Olmo, An exhibition - a divice; Arnaldo Bagnasco, The City Discusses Itself; Michela Comba with Rita D'Attorre, Lingotto report; Sergio Pace, Architecture and society in Torino in the 80s and 90s; Cristina Bianchetti, Spina 3 and the paradoxes of urban policy; Marco Demarie and Giovanni Durbiano, Distretto: a planning myth for the centre of Torino; Antonio De Rossi: TO-morrow; Angelo Pichierri and Valentina Pacetti with Francesca Camorali, Mirafiori. From the factory’s disintegration to integration in the city; Paolo Verri, FIAT. At last Italy will love Torino; Elena Carmagnani, Photo-graphy of a city. 20 photos by Michele D'Ottavio.
Contemporary Architecture in Torino
Curated by Giovanni Durbiano
Published by Allemandi & C.
The series of books Contemporary Architecture in Turin, published in the two languages, sets out to reconstruct and narrate the complexity of the protagonists, their roles, the places and cultures which have defined 1900s Torino, and to deduct critically the possible strategies and scenarios for Torino’s metropolitan area today.
Published so far:
Il Palazzo dei Lavori Pubblici
Michele Bonino
Modern Alpine Architecture in Piedmont and Vale d’Aosta
Antonio De Rossi
Turin 1980/2011
Antonio De Rossi, Giovanni Durbiano
Baroque
Luca Dal Pozzolo, Michela Benente
Italia ’61: the Nation on Show
Sergio Pace, Cristiana Chiorino, Michela Rosso
UCM Start
Self-produced, this book is Urban Center Metropolitano’s first release on paper. A small volume illustrating Torino’s urban center’s organisation, activity, objectives since September 2005, date of its foundation.
Urban Center Metropolitano: year 01. Projects, activities and research
A year after its start up, Urban Center Metropolitano makes an assessment on the activities it has performed during 2006: project accompaniment, exhibition organisation, urban itineraries, shows, research. The report is enriched with the participation of Cino Zucchi, Carlo Olmo, Mario Viano, Riccardo Ruscelli and Antonio De Rossi.
The city is growing
The gadget-book, which was born from the united efforts with Servizi Educativi della Città di Torino, the city council’s educational services office, proposes a narration on the city through the eyes of children. The drawings covering the issues within the book are by children of junior schools across Torino and were produced during the many workshops about the city organised by Servizi Educativi della Città.
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