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This paper proposes that there is a wide and important wealth to the philosophy and art of Guarino Guarini, and one of the keys to these matters lies in the structure and content of his Architettura civile, his posthumously-published treatise on archietecture. Guarini was an important mathematician in the development of calculus, and his fame is not just that of an architect, perhaps the most learned that Europe has ever thrown up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Michele Sbacchi investigates the real influence of the notion of projection on architectural design before and during the age of Guarini. He takes into consideration concepts such as light and shadow, abstract line, plane, section, projective geometry and perspective. To do this he looks at the ideas of Gregorius Saint Vincent, Alberti, Guarini, Desargues and de l΄Orme, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The triple-storey façade, one of the most original inventions of the Baroque period in terms of form and proportion, arose in Sicily and quickly spread throughout Italy, to Europe and beyond. Guarini΄s design for the façade of Santissima Annunziata in Messina paved the way for its general acceptance. The roots for the concept, however, may be found in the work of Giacomo Del Duca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his church of San Lorenzo in Torino Guarino Guarini conceived a structural organism that transfers the weight of the dome to the foundations by means of a partially concealed ribbed structure. This rare example of architecture in which form and structure do not coincide is not the result of an eccentric choice of technical virtuosity, but rather a structure mechanism aimed at achieving certain effects that have been knowingly sought out by the architect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a ˵reading″ of the church of San Lorenzo in Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini, through the philosophical notion of ˵fold″ introduced by Gilles Deleuze. The paper consists of two parts. The first part contains an exploration of the notion of ˵fold″ in architecture and in philosophy and examines the use of the fold in the theory of Baroque architecture as well as the range of this new tool in architectural practise in contemporary architecture and in philosophy and examines the use of the fold as fundamental condition for understanding Baroque era. The second part contains the application of the notion of fold as a philosophical and conceptual framework for the ˵reading″ of the chapel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the new architecture still in constant evolution, and its forms fragmented, bent, twisted and folded out of any immediately recognizable shape, a comparison with older, more canonical architecture also helps us to see the new, and to understand what we are seeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long awaited, monumental volume dedicated to Guarino Guarini, edited by Giuseppe Dardanello, Susan Klaiber and Henry Millon is all it was hoped to be. Resulting from the 2002 seminar on Guarini held at the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, the present volume is the successor to the two-volume proceedings published in 1970 of the international conference that took place in Torino΄s Accademia delle Scienze in 1968. The list of scholars present at the 1968 conference was star-studded, including Rudolf Wittkower, Franco Borsi, Werner Mueller, Wemer Oechslin, Manfredo Tafuri, Paolo Portoghesi, Henry Millon, Richard Pommer, Christian Norberg-Schulz and many others. The resulting collection of papers represented the latest word in Guarini scholarship up to that point. Now with the publication of this new book, Guarini scholarship – having in the meantime been enriched by the monographs of H. A. Meek (1988) and John Beldon Scott (2003) – is once again brought up to date, taking advantage not only of new information gleaned from the ongoing study of archives, etc. (and the dubious silver lining of the 1997 fire in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, which made it possible to learn things about the Chapel which would otherwise have remained unknown), but also of new methods of investigation that have been developed over the intervening thirty-six years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]