This book reviews 18 wineries built in several countries to designs by international architects between 2007 and today. Most of the designs reviewed are in Europe and America and the illustrations and accompanying texts focus on how the buildings are inserted into the landscape.
This book reviews 18 wineries built in several countries to designs by international architects between 2007 and today. Francesca Chiorino’s introductory essay examines the relationship between the wineries and the environment and the architects’ ability to decipher and render the characteristics of the terroir, intended as all the cultural, environmental, geological and morphological qualities peculiar to the site. An essay by Carlo Tosco confirms the idea that exploration of the territory is core to the architectural design process for wineries and its rereading of the history of the wine-growing and producing landscape stresses how new wine-making approaches are impacting on local features, age-old artisan methods, autochthonous vines and small family producers. Awareness is currently being raised in a practice that spans ecology, landscape management and even architecture, often with exceptional results and in which wineries become hugely important parts of a far broader process of general territorial rediscovery. Most of the designs reviewed are in Europe and America and the illustrations and accompanying texts focus on how the buildings are inserted into the landscape. The architects examined are: Álvaro Siza Vieira, perraudin architectes, RCR arquitectes, Bearth & Deplazes, Andreas Burghardt, Werner Tscholl, Francisco Izquierdo, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Richard Rogers, Gerd Bergmeister, Tobia Scarpa, Norman Foster, Estudio Nómada, Jean Nouvel, VF arquitectos, Onsitestudio, Guedes + Decampos and AFT Arquitectos.