Denise Costanzo is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Art History at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at the University of Sydney, Australia.

This elegant collection challenges familiar ideas of how Italian sites and histories shaped 20th-century design theory worldwide. Inaugurating a set of provocative new questions, it stands to generate innovative architectural and scholarly debates for years to come.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements 1. INTRODUCTION: IMPRINTS AND TRACKS, Denise R. Costanzo & Andrew Leach (Penn State University, USA) and Andrew Leach (University of Sydney, Australia)2. THE ARCHITECT AS INTELLECTUAL, Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University, USA)3. ITALIAN AFTERTHOUGHTS: TRANSCODING VENICENESS FROM WITHOUT, Giorgia Aquilar (University Institute of Architecture, Venice, Italy)4. ITALY AS A METHODOLOGICAL TESTING GROUND FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Raul Martinez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)5. FUNCTIONALISM AND ITS ITALIAN ENTANGLEMENTS, Ute Poerschke (Penn State University, USA)6. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AS REBIRTH AND RETURN, Caspar Pearson (University of Essex, UK)7. FROM RENAISSANCE PRECISION TO COMPUTATIONAL UNCERTAINTY, Frank Bauer (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)8. THE HUMAN BODY AS A SPACE OF DIPLOMACY: STUDI SULLE PROPORZIONI AT THE IX MILAN TRIENNALE IN 1951, Federica Vannucchi (Pratt Institute, USA)9. MODELS AND METHODS OF ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE, Daniel A. Barber (University of Pennsylvania, USA)10. “SLOW DOWN YOUR KUNSTWOLLEN, YOUNG MAN”OR, WHAT A PRACTICE IN BUILDING DECONSTRUCTION LEARNED FROM TUSCAN ARISTOTELIANISM, Lionel Devlieger (University of Ghent, Belgium)11. ROBERT VENTURI AND NAPLES: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SOUTH, Rosa Sessa (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)12. GIO PONTI’S CLOUD OF AFFINITIES, Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute, USA)13. MARKING, FRAMING, AND MEASURING IN VITTORIO GREGOTTI’S IL TERRITORIO DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Chris French (University of Edinburgh, UK)14. ALDO ROSSI, GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, AND THE ENIGMA OF TRADITION, Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern California, USA)15. FURNISHING FASCIST ITALY, Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, USA)16. THE INTERNATIONAL CALL: ITALIAN DESIGN, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS AT THE 1972 MoMA EXHIBITION AND BEYOND, Silvia Micheli (University of Queensland, Australia) and Lorenzo Ciccarelli (University of Florence, Italy)17. APPROPRIATING ALDO ROSSI: THE DISPLACED AFTERLIFE OF L’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTÀ IN CHINA, Dijia Chen (University of Virginia, USA)18. FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR: ROBIN BOYD AND THE POSITIONING OF ITALY IN POST-WAR ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM, Philip Goad (University of Melbourne, Australia)19. UNEXPECTED PEDAGOGIES: HENRY HORNBOSTEL IN ITALY, 1893, Francesca Torello (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)20. ITALIAN ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos (Goethe University, Germany)Index

Denise Costanzo is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Art History at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at the University of Sydney, Australia.

This elegant collection challenges familiar ideas of how Italian sites and histories shaped 20th-century design theory worldwide. Inaugurating a set of provocative new questions, it stands to generate innovative architectural and scholarly debates for years to come.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements 1. INTRODUCTION: IMPRINTS AND TRACKS, Denise R. Costanzo & Andrew Leach (Penn State University, USA) and Andrew Leach (University of Sydney, Australia)2. THE ARCHITECT AS INTELLECTUAL, Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University, USA)3. ITALIAN AFTERTHOUGHTS: TRANSCODING VENICENESS FROM WITHOUT, Giorgia Aquilar (University Institute of Architecture, Venice, Italy)4. ITALY AS A METHODOLOGICAL TESTING GROUND FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Raul Martinez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)5. FUNCTIONALISM AND ITS ITALIAN ENTANGLEMENTS, Ute Poerschke (Penn State University, USA)6. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AS REBIRTH AND RETURN, Caspar Pearson (University of Essex, UK)7. FROM RENAISSANCE PRECISION TO COMPUTATIONAL UNCERTAINTY, Frank Bauer (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)8. THE HUMAN BODY AS A SPACE OF DIPLOMACY: STUDI SULLE PROPORZIONI AT THE IX MILAN TRIENNALE IN 1951, Federica Vannucchi (Pratt Institute, USA)9. MODELS AND METHODS OF ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE, Daniel A. Barber (University of Pennsylvania, USA)10. “SLOW DOWN YOUR KUNSTWOLLEN, YOUNG MAN”OR, WHAT A PRACTICE IN BUILDING DECONSTRUCTION LEARNED FROM TUSCAN ARISTOTELIANISM, Lionel Devlieger (University of Ghent, Belgium)11. ROBERT VENTURI AND NAPLES: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SOUTH, Rosa Sessa (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)12. GIO PONTI’S CLOUD OF AFFINITIES, Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute, USA)13. MARKING, FRAMING, AND MEASURING IN VITTORIO GREGOTTI’S IL TERRITORIO DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Chris French (University of Edinburgh, UK)14. ALDO ROSSI, GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, AND THE ENIGMA OF TRADITION, Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern California, USA)15. FURNISHING FASCIST ITALY, Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, USA)16. THE INTERNATIONAL CALL: ITALIAN DESIGN, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS AT THE 1972 MoMA EXHIBITION AND BEYOND, Silvia Micheli (University of Queensland, Australia) and Lorenzo Ciccarelli (University of Florence, Italy)17. APPROPRIATING ALDO ROSSI: THE DISPLACED AFTERLIFE OF L’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTÀ IN CHINA, Dijia Chen (University of Virginia, USA)18. FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR: ROBIN BOYD AND THE POSITIONING OF ITALY IN POST-WAR ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM, Philip Goad (University of Melbourne, Australia)19. UNEXPECTED PEDAGOGIES: HENRY HORNBOSTEL IN ITALY, 1893, Francesca Torello (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)20. ITALIAN ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos (Goethe University, Germany)Index