Mirko Zardini (ed.)

Rooms You May Have Missed: Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain

Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva is an unexpected story of architectural attitudes that starts unfolding from the interior. The book pairs two architects operating in distinctive contexts, Mumbai and Milan, in order to uncover new possibilities for ways of conceiving and producing space.

Through a personal narrative that pulls from building visits and ongoing conversations, Mirko Zardini—curator of an accompanying exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture—interprets each architect’s motivations and preoccupations and finds unlikely resonance in their complementary approaches. The two architects are brought together at the book’s centre in photographs of the exhibition, for which they were each asked to create an exhibition design evoking the atmosphere of their domestic projects. The book also contains extensive visual material, including rich, rarely published drawings by Riva and in-progress documentation of Jain’s most recent projects and research.

Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva is an unexpected story of architectural attitudes that starts unfolding from the interior. The book pairs two architects operating in distinctive contexts, Mumbai and Milan, in order to uncover new possibilities for ways of conceiving and producing space.

Through a personal narrative that pulls from building visits and ongoing conversations, Mirko Zardini—curator of an accompanying exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture—interprets each architect’s motivations and preoccupations and finds unlikely resonance in their complementary approaches. The two architects are brought together at the book’s centre in photographs of the exhibition, for which they were each asked to create an exhibition design evoking the atmosphere of their domestic projects. The book also contains extensive visual material, including rich, rarely published drawings by Riva and in-progress documentation of Jain’s most recent projects and research.

This book is also available in French

Author(s): Mirko Zardini

In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Design: Integral Lars Müller

15 x 21 cm, 6 x 8 ¼ in

240 pages, 266 illustrations

paperback

978-3-03778-458-7, English
CHF 25.00

Mirko Zardini

Mirko Zardini (*1955 in Verona, Italy) is an architect, researcher, writer, and curator. He gained his degree in architecture at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1980 and worked as a teacher at Syracuse, Miami and Harvard Universities, at ETH in Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne. He was Senior Consulting Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) from 2003-2005 before he was appointed its Director and Chief Curator in 2005.