Toni Follina architetto

This new monograph – after the one published by Electa in 1988 – offers an overview of Toni Follina’s sixty years of professional achievement, with texts by Luca Massimo Barbero, Guido Beltramini, Manlio Brusatin and Roberto Dulio.

The volume retraces the architect’s achievement from 1964 to 2024, illustrating his private residential construction projects with photographs, sketches and drawings; the public commissions: the tollbooth canopies on the Serenissima motorway, the Municipal Palace of Nervesa della Battaglia, the renovation of the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Rome, the new headquarters of the Province of Treviso in Sant’Artemio; the projects: the towers of Al Kobar, the competition for Ca’ Venier dei Leoni in Venice, Treviso stadium; international competitions: the Acropolis Museum in Athens, the New National Museum of Korea in Seoul, the GEM in Cairo; the city’s urban planning projects: Piazza Grande at Oderzo, the redevelopment of the historic centres of Carpi, Possagno and Mogliano Veneto. In addition to his architectural output, the volume also focuses on the sculptural work inspired by nature and the Fibonacci sequence, conceptual installations reworked by geometrising and translating them into floral structures almost in symbiosis between sculpture and architecture. The images record the cornerstones of Toni Follina’s design work: attention to detail, the use of materials available locally; the combinations of metal structures, light and robust at the same time, with stone, wood and water, sublimated by the effects that light produces by striking the worked marbles, passing through the transparencies, and being mirrored.

Bilingual volume in Italian and English, translations by David Kerr and Richard Sadleir.