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Gianni Pettena was a founding member of the radical Florentine architecture movement in the 1960s and 1970s, together with Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, Superstudio, UFO and Zziggurat, albeit always maintaining an independent position. As well as critiquing modernist functionalism, he frequented galleries, artists, and critics of the day, and became noted for his purposeful reluctance to actually design. He may lay claim to being “the anarchitect,” to borrow the title from his first book. Pettena’s youthful work in the United States and assiduous frequentation of (an)architects such as Buckminster Fuller and James Wines, who early on paid attention to ecology, the suburbs and “to making insignificant places significant,” may be interpreted in this light. More generally, the uniqueness of his long career is informed by his rejection of discipline-based roles and methodologies, creating temporary works while constantly seeking alliances with conceptual art, Austrian radical design, Land Art and experimental music. This book documents (almost) all of his works, backed up by an extensive anthology of his writings.

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This book contains contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium "Fracture Phenomena in Nature and Technology" held in Brescia, Italy, 1-5 July, 2012.The objective of the Symposium was fracture research, interpreted broadly to include new engineering and structural mechanics treatments of damage development and crack growth, and also large-scale failure processes as exemplified by earthquake or landslide failures, ice shelf break-up, and hydraulic fracturing (natural, or for resource extraction or CO2 sequestration), as well as small-scale rupture phenomena in materials physics including, e.g., inception of shear banding, void growth, adhesion and decohesion in contact and friction, crystal dislocation processes, and atomic/electronic scale treatment of brittle crack tips and fundamental cohesive properties.Special emphasis was given to multiscale fracture description and new scale-bridging formulations capable to substantiate recent experiments and tailored to become the basis for innovative computational algorithms.

Fracture mechanics --- Mechanics, applied. --- Materials. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Structural Materials. --- Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Materials --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Structural materials. --- Mathematical models. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Models, Mathematical --- Simulation methods --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory

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Art --- installations [visual works] --- architecture [discipline] --- painting [image-making] --- costume [mode of fashion] --- sculpting --- graphic arts --- residing --- Zittel, Andrea

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Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- color [perceived attribute] --- wall pieces --- Consagra, Pietro