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Pride in modesty : modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy / Michelangelo Sabatino.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabatino, Michelangelo, 1969-
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies.
- Toronto Italian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vernacular architecture--Italy--Influence.
- Vernacular architecture.
- Architecture--Italy--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2010
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.
- Contents:
- In search of Italianità : ethnography and national identity
- The picturesque revival : rusticity and contextualism
- Tabula rasa and tradition : futurism and rationalism between primitivism and Mediterraneità
- Engineering versus architecture: the vernacular between new objectivity and lyricism
- Continuity and reality : the vernacular resumed in postwar architecture and urbanism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6737-0
- 1-4426-9846-2
- OCLC:
- 868069047
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