Pride in modesty : modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy / Michelangelo Sabatino.

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Sabatino, Michelangelo, author.

Title & Author:

Pride in modesty : modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy / Michelangelo Sabatino.

Publication:

Description:

xxvi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-317) and index.
In search of Italianità : ethnography and national identity -- The picturesque revival : rusticity and contextualism -- Tabula rasa and tradition : futurism and rationalism between primitivism and Mediterraneità -- Engineering versus architecture: the vernacular between new objectivity and lyricism -- Continuity and reality : the vernacular resumed in postwar architecture and urbanism.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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"--publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780802097057
0802097057
9781442612822
1442612827

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Italy Influence.
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architecture vernaculaire Italie Influence.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Vernacular architecture Influence
Italy

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Theses.
History
Books.

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Location: Library main 266980
Call No.: BIB 199029
Status: Available

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