Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK / / edited by Lorenzo Ciccarelli, Clare Melhuish.

• TeilnehmendeR: Melhuish, Clare,; Ciccarelli, Lorenzo,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL PRESS,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)

Postwar Architecture Between Italy and the UK explores the intellectual exchange between architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries during the 1940s to 1970s, and its legacy.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1 Editors' Note -- 2 The Complexity of Cultural Exchange: Anglo-Italian Relations in Architecture between Transnational Interactions and National Narratives -- 3 On the Wave of the Welfare State: Anglo-Italian Town-Planning Strategies in the Post-War Years -- Part I: Personae and Debates -- 4 Banham's Italy -- 5 From Neoliberty to Postmodernism -- 6 Franco Albini and Leslie Martin: 'A Parallel Working Life' -- 7 Superstudio, The Sign and The Problem of Architectural Education Part II: Designing the Post-War City -- 8 Reweaving the City: The CIAM Summer Schools from London to Venice (1949-57) -- 9 The Influence of Patrick Geddes in Post-War Italy through Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Giancarlo De Carlo -- 10 Domenico Andriello and The 'Città Dell'uomo' -- 11 From Futurism to 'Town-Room': Hodgkinson, the Brunswick and The Low-Rise/High-Density Principle -- Part III: Building the Welfare State -- 12 A Janus-Faced Approach to the New Universities of the 1960s: Monumentality and Pedagogy at Sussex and Essex -- 13 Italy Assessing the UK Assessing Italy: A Battle of Perspectives on Cities and Learning -- 14 The Jewel of the Triennale: Dialogues between Italy and the UK around a School -- 15 Post-War British Church Architecture and the Italian Model -- Index -- Back -- Cover.