{"product_id":"italian-imprints-on-twentiethcentury-architecture-9781350257764","title":"Italian Imprints on TwentiethCentury Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItalian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring the privileged position of Italian architects, architecture, and cities in the architectural culture of the past century.Questioning the deep-rooted myth of Italy within architectural history, the book presents case studies of Italy's powerful yet problematic position in 20th-century architectural ideologies, at a time when established Eurocentric narratives are rightly being challenged. It reconciles the privileged position of Italian architecture and design with the imperative to write history across a more global, diverse, heterogenous cultural geography. Twenty chapters from distinguished international scholars cover subjects and architects ranging from Albe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis elegant collection challenges familiar ideas of how Italian sites and histories shaped 20th-century design theory worldwide. Inaugurating a set of provocative new questions, it stands to generate innovative architectural and scholarly debates for years to come. * Mia Fuller, University of California Berkeley, USA *\u003cbr\u003eAt once origin of the Western conceptualization of architecture as a discipline and institution, home to buildings that have become hypercanonized, and arena of historiographical debates, Italy is an undeniable presence in architectural consciousness, whether it is embraced or rejected. From a variety of perspectives the essays in this volume enrich and complicate our understanding of Italy’s position in global architectural culture. Together they amount to a critical examination of ‘architecture’s vision of itself’ over the long 20th century. * Maarten Delbeke, ETH Zürich, Switzerland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/b\u003e   1. INTRODUCTION: IMPRINTS AND TRACKS, \u003ci\u003eDenise R. Costanzo \u0026amp; Andrew Leach (Penn State University, USA) and Andrew Leach (University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. THE ARCHITECT AS INTELLECTUAL, \u003ci\u003eJean-Louis Cohen (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. ITALIAN AFTERTHOUGHTS: TRANSCODING \u003ci\u003eVENICENESS\u003c\/i\u003e FROM WITHOUT, \u003ci\u003eGiorgia Aquilar (University Institute of Architecture, Venice, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. ITALY AS A METHODOLOGICAL TESTING GROUND FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, \u003ci\u003eRaul Martinez\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. FUNCTIONALISM AND ITS ITALIAN ENTANGLEMENTS, \u003ci\u003eUte Poerschke\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Penn State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AS REBIRTH AND RETURN, \u003ci\u003eCaspar Pearson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Essex, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. FROM RENAISSANCE PRECISION TO COMPUTATIONAL UNCERTAINTY, \u003ci\u003eFrank Bauer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. THE HUMAN BODY AS A SPACE OF DIPLOMACY: \u003ci\u003eSTUDI SULLE PROPORZIONI\u003c\/i\u003e AT THE IX MILAN TRIENNALE IN 1951, \u003ci\u003eFederica Vannucchi (Pratt Institute, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. MODELS AND METHODS OF ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE, \u003ci\u003eDaniel A. Barber\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Pennsylvania, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. “SLOW DOWN YOUR KUNSTWOLLEN, YOUNG MAN” OR, WHAT A PRACTICE IN BUILDING DECONSTRUCTION LEARNED FROM TUSCAN ARISTOTELIANISM, \u003ci\u003eLionel Devlieger (University of Ghent, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. ROBERT VENTURI AND NAPLES: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SOUTH, \u003ci\u003eRosa Sessa\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Naples Federico II, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. GIO PONTI’S CLOUD OF AFFINITIES, \u003ci\u003eMaristella Casciato\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Getty Research Institute, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. MARKING, FRAMING, AND MEASURING IN VITTORIO GREGOTTI’S IL TERRITORIO DELL’ARCHITETTURA, \u003ci\u003eChris French\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Edinburgh, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. ALDO ROSSI, GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, AND THE ENIGMA OF TRADITION, \u003ci\u003eDiane Ghirardo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Southern California, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. FURNISHING FASCIST ITALY, \u003ci\u003eIgnacio G. Galán\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Barnard College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. THE INTERNATIONAL CALL: ITALIAN DESIGN, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS AT THE 1972 MoMA EXHIBITION AND BEYOND, \u003ci\u003eSilvia Micheli (University of Queensland, Australia) and Lorenzo Ciccarelli (University of Florence, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 17.  APPROPRIATING ALDO ROSSI: THE DISPLACED AFTERLIFE OF \u003ci\u003eL’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTÀ\u003c\/i\u003e IN CHINA, \u003ci\u003eDijia Chen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Virginia, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 18. FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR: ROBIN BOYD AND THE POSITIONING OF ITALY IN POST-WAR ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Goad \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Melbourne, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 19. UNEXPECTED PEDAGOGIES: HENRY HORNBOSTEL IN ITALY, 1893, \u003ci\u003eFrancesca Torello\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003e(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 20. ITALIAN ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, \u003ci\u003eDaniela Ortiz dos Santos (Goethe University, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407525749079,"sku":"9781350257764","price":22.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350257764.jpg?v=1730499669","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-imprints-on-twentiethcentury-architecture-9781350257764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}