Moderns Abroad - Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

Informationen zum Autor Mia Fuller is Associate Professor in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows! not only the design of the physical architecture! but also the development of colonial design theory! based on the assumptions made about the colonized! and also the application of modernist theory to both Italian architecture and that of its colonies. Moderns Abroad is the first book to present an overview of Italian colonial architecture and city planning. In chronicling Italian architects' attempts to define a distinctly Italian colonial architecture that would set Italy apart from Britain and France! it provides a uniquely comparative study of Italian colonialism and architecture that will be of interest to specialists in modern architecture! colonial studies! and Italian studies alike. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Contexts 1. History: 1869 – 1943 2. Geographies 3. The Colonial Built Environment Untheorized, 1880s – 1920s Part 2: Theories 4. Modern Italian Architecture, 1910s – 1930s 5. Colonial Modern, 1920s – 1940s 6. Imperial Urbanism, 1936 – 1937 Part 3: Practices 7. The Italian Colonial City: Tripoli 8. Islands of Ethnicity: Planned Agricultural Settlements 9. The Imperial City: Addis Ababa. Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Mia Fuller, Mia (University of California At Berkeley Fuller, Fuller Mia, Mia Fuller
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2006
• EAN: 9780415194631
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19463-1
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Architext; Architext
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Italien, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Architektonische Struktur und Gestaltung, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Cultural Studies, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Interdisciplinary studies, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban communities, Civil engineering, surveying and building