Description
Book SynopsisGiuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter, he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.
Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth, mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production, concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: A Rebel with a Cause
Chapter 1: Pagano the Young Man: The Formation of an Idealist from Porec to Turin (1896–1926)
Chapter 2: Pagano the Architect: Architecture as a Force for Social Change (1927–1941)
Chapter 3: Pagano the Writer: The Voice for an Alternative Modernism (1930–1943)
Chapter 4: Pagano the Exhibition Designer: Art in the Service of an Idea (1928–1940)
Chapter 5: Pagano the Photographer: Snapshots of the Real Italy (1935–1943)
Chapter 6: Pagano The Fighter: The Life and Death of a Partisan From Milan to Mauthausen (January 1941–April 1945)
Chapter 7: Giuseppe Pagano, Polemical Photographer
Chapter 8: Elemental Housing: Giuseppe Pagano’s Neorealist Ethos
Building Information Sheets
Anthology of Writings
List of Illustrations
References
Filmography
Endnotes
Index
