Pride in Modesty : : Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy / / Michelangelo Sabatino.
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 ob...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword: The Extraordinary Role of Ordinary Things
- Ringraziamenti/Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 In Search of Italianità: Ethnography and National Identity
- 2 The Picturesque Revival: Rusticity and Contextualism
- 3 Tabula rasa and Tradition: Futurism and Rationalism between Primitivism and Mediterraneità
- 4 Engineering versus Architecture: The Vernacular between New Objectivity and Lyricism
- 5 Continuity and Reality: The Vernacular Resumed in Postwar Architecture and Urbanism
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index