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Reconstructing Italy
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 unlik...
The Architecture of Modern Italy
“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all o...
The Social City
In the post-war period, Berlin and Naples experienced a phase of profound changes, essentially influenced by external factors: the less rigid urban structure which had been ruined by World War II, resulting in severe changes in the social and economic structure, an uncritical reception and implementation of largely theoretical models of functionalism in urban planning, and in the design of the new public building interventions. On the one hand, between the 1940s and the 1980s, Berlin experienced a considerable loss in population, a political isolation and an urban splitting, as the urban planning institutions, deeply influenced by relevant politics, slowly and thoroughly changed the cityscap...
Pride in Modesty
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea
Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, this book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy's ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries and illustrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.
L'architettura è un'isola
L’architettura è un’isola è un libro per insegnare, per imparare, per fare ricerca, per coinvolgere studenti e professori in un solo sogno, il sogno di un’utopia in cui il progetto isola. Isola nel mare, isola nella pianura campana, isola nell’archeologia. Poi per magia questa forza multipla e democratica mette insieme tutto e tutti.
Getty Research Journal
The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Getty’s collections, initiatives, and research. This issue features essays on works by Bolognese painter Guido Reni and his studio; a collection of late nineteenth-century images by one of Iran’s most prolific photographers, Antoin Sevruguin; Le Corbusier’s encounters with and monumentalization of the konak, a type of Ottoman house; the correspondence between René Magritte and his wife while h...
Sistemi agrourbani
Il paesaggio della piana del Sarno, tra il Vesuvio e i monti Lattari, è fatto di parti densamente edificate, come Pompei e Scafati, e di campagne produttive variamente urbanizzate. La sua rigenerazione si fonda su un’idea di città verde discontinua, inclusiva delle zone agricole, che rilegge la “città in estensione” di Giuseppe Samonà alla luce degli attuali problemi insediativi. La proposta è un sistema multipolare, costruito da cluster agrourbani di residenze produttive separate da aree rurali e connessi alla riqualificazione del fiume Sarno. La strategia qui delineata ha tra i suoi obiettivi il contenimento della dispersione edilizia, un migliore uso del suolo e dei canali, sol...
Nella Ricerca
Luogo di confronto e di dibattito, tanto che alcuni testi possono essere intesi in continuo e aperto dialogo nel tempo, gli Annali intendono scandire, con una certa duttilità temporale rispetto ad un'unica rivoluzione terrestre, il ritmo delle riflessioni scientifiche che si compiono nel Dipartimento di Architettura e Urbanistica per l'Ingegneria dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza. La precisazione del tema di questo secondo volume degli Annali, Nella Ricerca, vorrebbe dare un senso della prosecuzione del viaggio che si sta sviluppando all'interno del Dipartimento per chiarire i contenuti del lavoro e portarli al confronto. Questo volume degli Annali si manifesta quindi come espressione de...
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