Books: Wine+Architecture+Archicura

Cellars, tasting locations and museums dedicated to wine, represent new opportunities for the best architects. The producers, in every part of the world, turn to them and, not infrequently, the images of their works have become the images of wine itself, transforming these same objects from secluded places into architectural objects in the landscape. But how do you harmonize these transformations, imposed by the dynamics of the market and the entrepreneurial creativity, with the fact that wine should continue to be produced and grown old without forgetting the tradition advises and teaches? This book answers this question and repeats this question again, because those who wrote it believes that between architecture and wine there is a hidden but strong analogy: every work of architecture, like wine, should be made ​​to grow harmoniously. Not always, though, so it happens, but sometimes, as this book is about, so it happens.
This volume documents with images and drawings a selected series of wine architectures, wineries and wine museums made​​, among others, by Herzog & de Meuron, Mario Botta, Santiago Calatrava, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Renzo Piano, Gilles Perrodin, Boris Pedrecca, ARCHICURA.

(“ARCHITETTRA E VINO. Nuove cantine e gusto del vino”, author: Francesca Chiorino, Electa editore, Milano, 2007)

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