Abstract :
Fulvio Irace focuses on the internal tendencies of Italian contemporary architecture. In his identification of national characteristics, he recognises the part that a consolidated approach to Modernism has played. Looking backwards as well as forwards, Modernism in Italy, in all its manifestations, has been simultaneously concerned with the exaltation of the new and the obsession with memory. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Pirelli skyscraper , Bilbao Guggenheim , Carlo Molino , BBPRיs Velasca Tower , The Englishness of English Art , Italo Rota , futurist manifesto of FT Martinetti , Franco Albini , Nicolas Pevsner , Alessandro Mendini , Mario Sironi , Vittorio Vigan?יs Istituto Marchiondi in Milan (1957) , Umberto Boccioniיs city on the rise , Archigram , Carlo Carrà , Renzo Pianoיs office , Italian Rationalism , Milan Triennale , Gruppo , Arata , national character , Giuseppe Terragni , Richard Rogers , Isozaki , a theory of environmental pre-existences , Jean Louis Cohen and David Chipperfield , Gio Ponti , dolce stil novo , metaphysical manifesto of Giorgio de Chirico , Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini
