Umberto Riva Interni e allestimenti

Over the last sixty years, the architecture of Umberto Riva (b. 1928) has been distinguished for its stimulating complexity. This monograph analyses, for the first time in an organic and chronologically extended form, Riva’s work in the field of interiors and installations, fundamental fields of investigation for the Milanese architect. The restless and radical nature of Riva's work emerges from domestic spaces in contact with nature, apartments in the city or public places, in which the search for form brings with it a more intimate reflection on living. In the field of installations, the architect stages a complex relation between the works exhibited, the curatorial narrative and the museum space, proving himself one of the finest heirs to and continuers of the 20th-century Italian museographic revolution.