History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985
Title | History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 PDF eBook |
Author | Manfredo Tafuri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 1990 |
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History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985
Title | History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 PDF eBook |
Author | Manfredo Tafuri |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 1991-04-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262700436 |
Traces the development of Italian postwar architecture, and shows examples of apartment buildings, homes, office buildings, and government buildings
History of Italian Architecture, 1944-85
Title | History of Italian Architecture, 1944-85 PDF eBook |
Author | Manfredo Tafuri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262200677 |
Reconstructing Italy
Title | Reconstructing Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Zeier Pilat |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317070305 |
Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out in contrast to their contemporaries both in terms of design and outcome. Unlike modernist high-rise housing projects of the period, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and incorporate local construction materials and methods resulting in a rich aesthetic diversity. And unlike many other government forays into housing undertaken during this period, the Ina-Casa plan was, on the whole, successful: the neighborhoods are still lively and cohesive communities today. This book examines what made Ina-Casa a success among so many failed housing experiments, focusing on the tenuous balance struck between the legislation governing Ina-Casa, the architects who led the Ina-Casa administration, the theory of design that guided architects working on the plan, and an analysis of the results-the neighborhoods and homes constructed. Drawing on the writings of the architects, government documents, and including brief passages from works of neorealist literature and descriptions of neorealist films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino and others, this book presents a portrait of the postwar struggle to define a post-Fascist Italy.
Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini
Title | Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Bea Jones |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317048040 |
Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement. A chorus of Italian voices has sung his praises, none more eloquently than his protégé, Renzo Piano. Kay Bea Jones’ illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini will reintroduce his contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Albini emerged from the ideology of Rationalism to produce some of Italy’s most coherent and poetic examples of modern design. He collaborated for over 25 years with Franca Helg and at a time when professional male-female partnerships were virtually unknown. His museums and installation motifs changed the way Italians displayed historic artifacts. He composed novel suspension structures for dwellings, shops, galleries and his signature INA pavilions where levity and gravity became symbolic devices for connoting his subjects. Albini clarified the vital role of tradition in modern architecture as he experimented with domestic space. His cohort defied CIAM ideologies to re-socialize postwar housing and speculate on ways of reviving Italian cities. He explored new fabrication technologies, from the scale of furniture to wide-span steel structures, yet he never abandoned the rigors of craft and detail in favor of mass-production. Suspending Modernity follows the evolution of Albini’s most important buildings and projects, even as they reveal his apprehensive attitudes about the modern condition. Jones argues here that Albini’s masterful use of materials and architectural expression mark an epic paradigm shift in the modern period.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture
Title | Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | R. Stephen Sennott |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis US |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture, Modern |
ISBN | 9781579584351 |
For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Too Blessed to be Depressed
Title | Too Blessed to be Depressed PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | 010 Publishers |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architects |
ISBN | 9789064504662 |
Publikatie verschenen t.g.v. de uitreiking van de Rotterdam-Maaskantprijs voor jonge architecten aan Wouter Vanstiphout. Boekbespreking in De Architect, october 2002, p. 93.