PROJECT
The Census of Italian Architectures from 1945 to the present, promoted by DGCC, is focused on a whole category of architectures between post-World War II and the current times. Atlas of Contemporary Architecture aims to focus on a selection of the architectures surveyed by the Census, presenting specific thematic itineraries illustrated with original photographs.
The selection was carried out according to a criterion of distribution on the national territory and intended to represent each region. This principle sometimes meant excluding masterpieces, to give space to interesting regional realities, in the spirit of the project’s purpose, which intends to describe all of Italy.
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ItinerariES
The twentieth century neighborhoods have a precise identity in the common imagination: they have shaped an unprecedented urban development, producing "not houses but cities"
Churches, theaters, cinemas, squares and gardens, schools and universities, sports buildings and arenas for entertainment. These are the places of the collective life of the country, the places where they are and recognize each other
The economic boom has had the effect of directing architects and engineers towards innovative solutions, outlining the unprecedented image of a finally modern country
Summer vacations were among the most significant transformations of Italian society's customs by the economic miracle
The conspicuous heritage of museums, libraries, archaeological sites, exhibition spaces and cultural buildings transforms a journey in the Belpaese into a real "treasure hunt" with fascinating outlines
StorieS
The debate on the restoration of the modern essentially feeds on the comparison between the experiences made
Singular works that see women at work, alone, in pairs or in teams
The work of Pier Luigi Nervi fits fully into the economic recovery of post-war Italy
After the pioneering arched bridges of the early 1900s, in the post-war period, reinforced concrete found one of the most significant expressions of the Italian school in viaducts
“Building and not rebuilding!”: after the Second World War Ponti invites Italy to be reborn, directing it towards a solar and Mediterranean modernity, prefigured by “L’architettura è un cristallo”
From the dialogue between construction and place emerge buildings that are never mimetic but capable of “marking” the places, re-establishing them with an unequivocally modern trait
Carlo Scarpa is recognized in the late twentieth century for his profile as an experimenter, which leads him to distance himself from most of his contemporaries
Three generations of Tuscan masters, from the post-World War II period to the early Nineties, faced the urban dimension through architectures read, as Savioli said, as “fragments of the city”
History, context, type, destination, and formality of architecture are the constituent elements of Guido Canella design
The city, its history, tradition, the natural and built environment, and the redefinition of the landscape are a privileged terrain of research and architecture, in particular, in the work of Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola
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