Rizzoli has published the book Boeri/Gitai – A Private Glossary, a volume that delves into family memories and reflects on the world.
Picking up the threads of a dialogue that began in 2017 and has since deepened, Stefano Boeri and Amos Gitai, two leading intellectuals of our time—whose backgrounds and professional paths are rooted in architecture, cinema, and spatial theory—explore themes close to their hearts, drawing from family memories and developing into the projects and works that have shaped their careers.
The result is an intimate and illuminating glossary that traces the lives of the two authors, intertwined and connected through personal and professional experiences, shared cultural interests, and a longstanding friendship. The volume is grounded in the biographical memories of both authors: tracing Gitai’s artistic journey, from his architecture studies in Haifa to his 1980 documentary House and his recent installation at the Architecture Biennale, where he repeatedly captured some of the most significant events in recent Middle Eastern history; and through Boeri’s projects, from his work with the collective Multiplicity to his research on global urban conditions, highlighted in the XXIV International Exhibition “Inequalities.”
Many personal and family references emerge, from Stefano Boeri’s mother, architect and designer Cini Boeri, to Gitai’s mother, born in Palestine with Russian origins; from Gitai’s father, architect Munio Gitai, trained in Germany’s Bauhaus minimalism, to Renato Boeri, a neurologist and former partisan.
The book is available at: https://www.rizzolilibri.it/libri/a-private-glossary/?isbn=9788891840721
Credits
Published by: Mondadori Electa for Rizzoli
Authors: Stefano Boeri, Amos Gitai
Editorial Team: Alberto Berruto, Maria Lucrezia De Marco for Stefano Boeri; Marie-José Sanselme for Amos Gitai
Art Direction and Graphic Design: Cristina Menotti
Translation by TperTradurre S.r.l. (French to English and Italian to English)