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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512203303321

Titolo

Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK / / edited by Lorenzo Ciccarelli, Clare Melhuish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL PRESS, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages)

Disciplina

327

Soggetti

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro  -- Title  -- Copyright  -- Contents  -- List of Figures  -- List of Contributors  -- 1 Editors' Note  -- 2 The Complexity of Cultural Exchange: Anglo-Italian Relations in Architecture between Transnational Interactions and National Narratives  -- 3 On the Wave of the Welfare State: Anglo-Italian Town-Planning Strategies in the Post-War Years  -- Part I: Personae and Debates  -- 4 Banham's Italy  -- 5 From Neoliberty to Postmodernism  -- 6 Franco Albini and Leslie Martin: 'A Parallel Working Life'  -- 7 Superstudio, The Sign and The Problem of Architectural Education Part II: Designing the Post-War City  -- 8 Reweaving the City: The CIAM Summer Schools from London to Venice (1949-57)  -- 9 The Influence of Patrick Geddes in Post-War Italy through Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Giancarlo De Carlo  -- 10 Domenico Andriello and The 'Città Dell'uomo'  -- 11 From Futurism to 'Town-Room': Hodgkinson, the Brunswick and The Low-Rise/High-Density Principle  -- Part III: Building the Welfare State  -- 12 A Janus-Faced Approach to the New Universities of the 1960s: Monumentality and Pedagogy at Sussex and Essex  -- 13 Italy Assessing the UK Assessing Italy: A Battle of Perspectives on Cities and Learning  -- 14 The Jewel of the Triennale: Dialogues between Italy and the UK around a School  -- 15 Post-War British Church Architecture and the Italian Model  -- Index  -- Back --  Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Postwar Architecture Between Italy and the UK explores the intellectual exchange between architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries during the 1940s to 1970s, and its legacy.