1st Edition
Writing Architecture in Modern Italy Narratives, Historiography, and Myths
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Americana – Origins, Myths, and the Prehistoric Myth of a New World Chapter 2: From Building Interiors to Real Estate: Italo Calvino’s Urban Fictive Chronicles Chapter 3: From Chronicles to Storia: the Transition and Attempted Integration of Chronicles into History Chapter 4: Officina Einaudi. The Stories behind the History of a Publishing House Chapter 5: Storia 'quasi una fantasia': Giulio Carlo Argan and the Fictive in Historical Writing Conclusion: Meta-History and the New Historiographical Babel
Biography
Daria Ricchi is an architectural historian and writer. She holds a PhD from Princeton University, School of Architecture. She is a researcher at Oxford Brookes University and part-time tutor at Oxford University.
