Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Sabatino, Michelangelo

Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit...
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Author: Michelangelo Sabatino
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Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Sabatino, Michelangelo

Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

$148.68

Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

$148.68
Author: Michelangelo Sabatino
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 05/21/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781442612822

About the Author
Sabatino, Michelangelo: - Michelangelo Sabatino is professor and director of the PhD program in the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology

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