Main entry:

Scrivano, Paolo.

Title & Author:

Building transatlantic Italy : architectural dialogues with postwar America / Paolo Scrivano, Boston University, USA.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xviii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Italy and America, Before and After the War -- 2. America's Landing in Postwar Italy -- "Design as a political force" -- The Transatlantic Exchange as a Space In-between -- American Resources and Italian Projects -- 3. Actors and Instruments of the Italian-American Exchange -- An Intrepid Intermediary -- A "Mild Mr. Pickwick" -- Filtering and Decoding American Architectural Discourse -- 4. A Path Paved with Obstacles -- A Dialogue with Dissonant Voices -- Domesticating Modernization -- Importing the Myth of American Democracy -- 5. Making "a Little America of Italy" -- Domestic Space Under Change -- "Those kitchens we cannot have."

Summary:

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the 'American model' becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. Post-war US intervention in Italy provided ample institutional support for the dissemination of models and ideas concerning architecture. This effort manifested itself through housing programs, publications, exhibitions, and exchanges between scholars, engineers, and architects.

ISBN:

9781472414830 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472414837 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472414847
(epub)
9781472414854

Subject:

Architecture and society Italy History 20th century.
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architecture Italy American influences.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) Italy.
Architecture et société Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Italie Influence américaine.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Italie.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Architecture.
Architecture American influences.
Architecture and society.
Amerikanisierung
Architektur
Kulturbeziehungen
Italy.
Italien
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286683
Call No.: BIB 227109
Status: Available