
Building Transatlantic Italy
Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America
Paolo Scrivano(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2013
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-1-4724-1483-0 (ISBN)
Description
At the end of the Second World War, America's newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs such as the Marshall Plan- significantly altered existing transatlantic relations. In this context, Italian and American architectural cultures developed a fragile dialogue characterized by successful exchanges and forms of collaboration but also by reciprocal wariness. The dissemination of models and ideas concerning architecture generated complex effects and frequently led to surprising misinterpretations, obstinate forms of resistance and long negotiations between the involved parties. Issues of continuity and discontinuity dominated Italian culture and society at the time since at stake was the possible balance between allegedly long-established traditions and the prospect of a radical rupture with recent history. Architectural culture often contributed to reach a compromise between very diverging attitudes. Situated in the larger realm of studies on Americanization, this book questions current interpretations of transatlantic relations in architecture. By reconsidering the means and effects of the dialogue that unfolded between the two sides of the Atlantic during the postwar years, the volume analyzes how cultural and formal models were developed in one context and then modified when transferred to a new one as well as the fortune of this cultural exchange in terms of circulation, amplification, and simplification.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4724-1483-0 (9781472414830)
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Person
Paolo Scrivano is Assistant Professor of History of Modern Architecture at Boston University. His research focuses on the architecture of the twentieth century with a specific interest for the postwar years. He is the author, among others, of the volumes Storia di un'idea di architettura moderna. Henry-Russell Hitchcock e l'International Style and Olivetti Builds: Modern Architecture in Ivrea.
Content
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1 Italy and America, Before and After the War, 2 America's Landing in Postwar Italy, 3 Actors and Instruments of the Italian-American Exchange, 4 A Path Paved with Obstacles, 5 Making "a Little America of Italy", Conclusion, Index