Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths

by Daria Ricchi

Book Overview

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367559978
• ISBN13: 9780367559977
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages