First Italian collection of Lucius Burckhardt's writings published by Quodlibet

Quodlibet has released "Il falso è l'autentico" (The Fake is the Authentic), the first Italian anthology of writings by Swiss polymath Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003), edited by Gaetano Licata and Martin Schmitz. The volume collects essays from the 1960s to the 1990s spanning ecology, urban marginality, democracy, and design. Burckhardt, a historian, landscape architect, designer, and urbanist, taught at ETH Zurich, Kassel, and Bauhaus Weimar, and mentored architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. He founded promenadology (Strollology), a perception theory based on walking, developed with his wife Annemarie Burckhardt. The book's title references his concept that copies can exist without originals, analogous to costume jewelry being authentic costume jewelry. A seminar at the University of Palermo's Department of Architecture on March 29 will feature Licata, Schmitz, and Manuel Orazi.