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carmen maria enss und luigi monzo

townscapes in transition. transformation and reorganization of italian cities and their architecture in the interwar period

bielefeld: transcript verlag 2019

 

This publication brings together the proceedings of the two conferences »Townscapes in Transition« (AAIS, Sorrento, 2018) and »Continuare la città« (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, 2018) and is also embedded in the DFG research project »Planned Heritage. Gustavo Giovannonis and Theodor Fischer's Urban Planning for Historical Urban Areas 1889-1929«, directed by Carmen Maria Enss, University of Bamberg.

The main subject of the volume is the process by which today's urban Italy came into being. This collection of essays assembles recent studies in architectural and urbanistic history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design between the world wars. The authors explore physical changes in townscapes and landscapes, covering a wide range of architectural designs from strict modernist solutions to variations of regionalism, mediterraneanism (it. mediterraneità) and national style from all over Italy. Specifically, the volume explains how conservation, restoration and town planning for historic areas led to the production of heritage. By doing so, it also elucidates the role played by architects like Marcello Piacentini, Innocenzo Sabbatini, Pietro Aschieri, Mario De Renzi and Giulio Ulisse Arata and focuses on the cities Rome, Milan, Brescia, Bari, Bergamo, Rimini, Forlì, Predappio, Imola and Venice as central scenes of the analyses.

 

Table of Contents

Carmen M. Enss and Luigi Monzo: Editing Cities in Interwar Italy, 9

TRADITION, ARCHITECTURE, HOMOGENIZATION

Paolo Nicoloso: Piacentini and Unitary Architectural Directions for Italian Cities, 47

Cettina Lenza: The Concept of Tradition in the Theoretical and Aesthetic Debate from the 1920s to the Second Post-War Period, 61

URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS

Cecilia De Carli: Transformations in Architectural and Urban Culture in the Sant’Ambrogio Area of Milan between the World Wars, 85

Scott Budzynski: Transformation and the Vertical City. Milan?s Early Skyscrapers, 99

Anna G. Vyazemtseva: The Transformation of Rome and the Masterplan to Reconstruct Moscow. Historical Heritage between Modernity, Memory and Ideology, 113

Alberto Coppo: Preserving the Old to Build the Modern. Visions of an Alternative Brescia in the Project by Pietro Aschieri / 127

Christine Beese: The Townscape of Bari. A Laboratory of Italian Urbanism during the early Twentieth Century, 141

Sandro Scarrocchia: Bergamo as a Case Study, 155

RESTORATION AND INVENTION

Elena Pozzi, Marco Pretelli and Leila Signorelli: Planning the Past I: Giulio Ulisse Arata. Urban Renewal in Emilia Romagna, 171

Giulia Favaretto and Chiara Mariotti: Planning the Past II: Rimini and Forlì in the 1920s. The Replanning of Two Squares in Romagna, 185

Micaela Antonucci and Sofia Nannini: Architectural and Urban Transformations in Romagna during the Fascist Era between Tradition and Modernity. The Cases of Predappio, Forlì and Imola, 203

Angela Pecorario Martucci: Autarky and Tradition in the Architecture during Italy’s Fascist period. Newly Founded Cities, 221

CITY EXTENSIONS

Alexander Fichte: Urban Expansion in Venice, 1918–1939. Continuity of the Urban Form in the Internal Periphery of the Residential Area of Santa Marta, 233

Lorenzo Ciccarelli: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the Construction of Modern Rome, 247

Acknowledgments, 261

Carmen M. Enss and Luigi Monzo: ›Terms and Conditions‹ of Interwar Architecture and Urbanism in Italy. A Tentative Glossary, 263

Authors, 271

 

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