Abstract Reflecting their extensive domestic programmes, the UK and France became major exporters of New Town planning expertise. Yet each country delivered its expertise in different ways. Drawing on the UK’s own New Towns programme, a public sector international New Town planning agency, the British Urban Development Services Unit was created in 1975 but abandoned …
Abstract In 1890, the First Italian Exhibition of Architecture was held in Turin. Before then, in XIX century displays in the context of great kermesses, architectural themes were interspersed with decorative and applied arts, painting and sculpture. In the Turin event, on the contrary, for the first time architecture was “staged” in all its social, …
Abstract In the context of the monographic issue of the journal of the Society of Architects and Engineers in Torino dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the association (edited by Luigi Falco and Mauro Volpiano, 2013), the author explores the role of technical associations between the 19th and 20th centuries and their importance in defining …
Abstract The text deals with the debate on the preservation and transformation of Italian historic centres in the second half of the 20th century, through the emblematic experiences that took place in a number of cities, from Milan to Matera, from Turin to Palermo. The essay was published in the context of a critical review …
Abstract The paper analyzes the events of archaeological Promenade in Rome; with the Unification of Italy starts a heated debate about the conservation and enhancement of the ancient remains of the Capital. Since the second half of the eighties is a politician to raise the argument in the Parliament: doctor and man of culture Guido …
Abstract The paper analyses, through a study of the Dominican convent in Livorno, the development of this city, from the 17th century, when the Friars established there. They reached Livorno, a maritime trading center, and obtained from the Grand Duke Cosimo III, in 1695, a land in an expanding area, the “Venezia Nuova”. The Dominicans found …
Abstract This paper is part of the lodging of investigation on theater architecture and entertainment places for deeper changes and developments that occurred between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the years of transition the theatrical life, characterized by great intellectual strength, causes profound changes not only in setting architectural and construction of such buildings, …
Abstract The Gustavo Giovannoni Archive housed in the Centro di Studi per la Storia dell’Architettura of Rome has an extensive collection of documents about the architectural debate and events that took place at the Athens Conference (October 1931) sponsored by the Greek government. The final document The Athens Charter of Restoration was presented at the …
Abstract Il volume s’inserisce nel filone d’indagine sull’architettura e l’urbanistica del Novecento attraverso l’approfondimento della figura dell’architetto francese Pierre Vago. I suoi interessi spaziano all’interno di una differenziata operatività che va dall’attività professionale, esplicata in diversi circuiti geografici, alla didattica, tesa alla formazione dei giovani architetti, sino all’elaborazione teorico-concettuale che lo vede protagonista del Movimento …
Image: Photograph of model village and low-cost housing exhibition during the 1954 United Nations Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement, 1954 Abstract The chapter interrogates the “model village” exhibition that Jaqueline Tyrwhitt put together in New Delhi to showcase the UN’s vision of development. The exhibition was part of the 1954 United Nations Seminar on …
