ENZO MARI: DRAWINGS (SILVANA) (HB)

This book celebrates Enzo Mari, an inventor of languages, a constructor of grammars - intended as methods or sets of rules - who deemed these instruments necessary to "communicate knowledge with improved quality and efficiency". It is impossible to define his discipline or his profession: he is an artist, an industrial designer, a graphic designer, an architect, but also a theorist, a pedagogue, an intellectual, possibly a philosopher, certainly a utopian who knew how to programme quiet revolutions which are, even today, often misunderstood when not totally unknown. This book reveals some of the many facets of a complex and revolutionary personality.