Book Launch La Gae. Gae Aulenti (1927-2012)

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The monograph, which stems from the exhibition held between 2024 and 2025 at Triennale Milano, is an unprecedented and surprising portrait of Gae Aulenti (1927-2012). The exhibition and the book were produced in collaboration with the Gae Aulenti Archive. The backbone of the book is a chronology that follows the architect from 1927 to 2012 in an uninterrupted series of testimonies where her personal and professional lives are inextricably linked. The text is accompanied, page after page, by a completely renewed iconography, whose sequence follows step by step the thread of the words, the entrance of the projects, the making and unmaking of the shows, the opening and closing of the construction sites. The focus on the protagonist changes throughout the pages: close-ups alternate with crowd scenes, where she is just one element; zooms are followed by bird's-eye views, so that the chronological framework loses its rigidity and gives way to more in-depth analysis. There is also a chronology of the architect's writings and a list of over eight hundred projects. Finally, the index of names transforms the book into a guide to the culture, not only architectural, of the late twentieth century. In this journey, historiographical and literary genres are mixed: and the Gae that emerges is very different from the one we think we know, from hearsay or clichés.