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Building Transatlantic Italy - Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Building Transatlantic Italy - Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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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.
Nevertheless, the relationship between Italy and the United States
remained, in many respects, inconclusive, as circulation and
adoption of American models were subjected to alteration, often
faced resistance, or were used for their potential ideological
implications. This book questions how effective the circulation of
US-originated knowledge was: regarding the Italian-American
exchange, identifying what was exported from America is as
interesting and significant as recognizing what was received or
rejected. It reconsiders the means and effects of the circulation
of cultural and formal models between the two countries, analyzes
the way in which these models were developed in one context and
then modified when transferred to a new one, and examines the
fortune of this cultural exchange in terms of circulation,
amplification, simplification and misinterpretation. This
investigation into the Italian-American exchange in architecture
and planning is situated in the larger context of post-war
dissemination and diffusion of American cultural models.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Ashgate Studies in Architecture |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
2013 |
Authors: |
Paolo Scrivano
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Dimensions: |
246 x 174 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
254 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4724-1483-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
1-4724-1483-7 |
Barcode: |
9781472414830 |
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