1st Edition
Building Transatlantic Italy Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America
By Paolo Scrivano
Copyright 2013
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
