Pride in Modesty

Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-21
Mått:154 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442612822
Utmärkelser:Winner of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies awarded by the Modern Language Association 2010 (United States)

Utforska kategorier

Arkitektur inom Kultur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Michelangelo Sabatino is professor and director of the PhD program in the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology

Recensioner i media

‘Pride in Modesty brings a valuable new perspective to the scholarship on Italian modernism. Sabatino unquestionably establishes the vernacular as a major feature of Italian modernism and invites scholars to reconsider the topography of inter-war and post-war Italian architecture, which has far too long been defined by a narrow cannon of exemplars.’ - Lucy Maulsby (Canadian Art Review: vol35:02:10) 'Pride in Modesty offers the Anglophone scholar a rigorous and nuanced analysis not of Italian vernacular architecture per se but instead of the intellectual and creative engagement architects, engineers, and other proponents of modernist trends with everyday architecture in Italy during the twentieth century. Sabatino deftly navigates architects' adaptation of vernacular traditions under fascism...A compelling and insightful study of Italian Modernist architects.' - Joseph Sciorra Buildings & Landscapes: vol 18:01:2011 ‘Sabatino’s eloquent and significant study establishes and develops the critical ground that will serve as a bench mark for future research.’ - Andrew J. Manson , Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review, vol :23:01:2011