List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
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)
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Critically examining the privileged position of Italy within a global architectural history
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.
*Mia Fuller, University of California Berkeley, USA*
At once origin of the Western conceptualization of architecture as
a discipline and institution, home to buildings that have become
hypercanonized, and arena of historiographical debates, Italy is an
undeniable presence in architectural consciousness, whether it is
embraced or rejected. From a variety of perspectives the essays in
this volume enrich and complicate our understanding of Italy’s
position in global architectural culture. Together they amount to a
critical examination of ‘architecture’s vision of itself’ over the
long 20th century.
*Maarten Delbeke, ETH Zürich, Switzerland*
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