WEST WORKROOM

west workroom was printed in November 2007 and reached EU bookshops in February 2008 and US bookshop in the spring of 2008. The specialized press showed no interest in reviewing it in 2008 (we were not ‘close enough’ to those in charge) and it began to discovered it in the spring 2009, after it was named among the best books of 2008 by the curator (Francesco Garofalo) of the 2008 Italian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale and after Joseph Rykwert’s comments about it in April 2009: a watershed in Italian Architectural Theory. Much like yogurt, however, the book has now apparently ‘expired’: it is too ‘old’ to get reviewed in the specialized press. Our reaction is straightforward: SCREW THE PRESS, and let us ask some people we admire to express their views on the book by reviewing it. Some are available here.

west workroom had been discussed in a number of places/institutions.
The following.

28.10.07 Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
introduction by Stefano Boeri

29.11.07 C-B A, Milan, Italy

03.03.08 Domus Academy, Milan, Italy

13.03.08 Harvard Club Of Monaco, Montecarlo,

21.04.08 American Academy In Rome, Rome, Italy
Conversation with Livio Sacchi and Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

26.05.08 Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
introduction by Fabio Nonis

30.05.08 FestArch II Cagliari, Italy
Conversation with Luca Molinari

22.10.08 Daniels School of Architecture, Toronto University, Toronto, CAN
introduction by George Baird (see video)

03.12.08 Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Conversation with Daniel Sherer (see video)

16.04.09 Libreria Electa-Koening, Milan, Italy
Conversation with Cino Zucchi and Joseph Rykwert (see video)