David Escudero

Neorealist Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book is beautifully illustrated with over 100 black and white archival images and is the first book to be published on neorealism in architecture. It will appeal to scholars, professionals and students interested in history and theory of architecture, Italian studies, art history and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000713657
• Artikelnr.: 65958355

Autorenporträt

David Escudero is an architect and associate professor in architecture at the Department of Architectural Composition of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM-UPM), and a member of the UPM Cultural Landscape Research Group (GIPC). His research topics focus on the intersections between theory of architecture, cinema, and representation. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2022), and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (2017), at the gta Institute of the ETH Zürich (2017) and at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome (2018). He was awarded a Graham Foundation grant for his book Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy. He has authored articles in Journal of Architecture (RIBA), Architectural Theory Review, and OASE Journal for Architecture, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD by Andrew Leach ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I. TOWARDS A
CONCEPT: NEOREALIST ARCHITECTURE Chapter 1. A Climate Beyond Filmmaking
Chapter 2. Political Celebration, Formal Failure PART II. A NEOREALIST
MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE Chapter 3. The INA-Casa Program as a Vehicle for
Neorealism Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Mood, Mindset... Translated Into Bricks
PART III. NEOREALIST IMAGES OF ARCHITECTURE Chapter 5. Architecture Within
the Imagery of Neorealism Chapter 6. Figuranti of a Shared Aesthetic
EPILOGUE. THE SCENE OF HUMAN'S LIFE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX