Main entry:

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

Title & Author:

Building fascism, communism, liberal democracy : Gaetano Ciocca--architect, inventor, farmer, writer, engineer / Jeffrey T. Schnapp.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 The Mission of the Engineer 1 -- 2 Universal Characteristics 13 -- 3 A Fascist Engineer in the Land of Soviets 21 -- 4 Engineer and Writer 35 -- 5 The Theater of the Masses 57 -- 6 Corporativist Urbanism, Fast Housing, Cities of Pigs 71 -- 7 Villages of the Sun 101 -- 8 The Guided Roadway or Italy on Autopilot 113 -- 9 Bridges between the Possible and the Real 131 -- 10 Toward the Crystalline Science 153 -- Appendix 1 A Chronology of Ciocca's Life 167 -- Appendix 2 A Synopsis of Ciocca's Tempo Writings 239.

Summary:

"This book tells the tale of the prolific Italian architect, inventor, farmer, writer, and engineer Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America, and finally to postwar liberal-democratic Italy. Like celebrated counterparts such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Ciocca was a visionary so confident in his vision of a future in which all aspects of life would be rationalized and modernized that no set of practical or political obstacles could ever stand in his way. Ciocca's endeavors included the development of "fast houses," a "theater for 20,000 spectators," the "guided roadway," and the rationalist pig farms referred to by Carlo Belli as "Ciocca's Grand Hotel for Pigs.""--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0804748772 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804748773 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ciocca, Gaetano, 1882-1966.
Ciocca, Gaetano.
Engineers Italy Biography.
Ingénieurs Italie Biographies.
Engineers.
Architektur
Architecte.
Ingénieur.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
Quotations (texts)
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231339
Call No.: NA44.C5765.2 S3 2004
Status: Available