Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
Sometimes architecture is discovered rather than sought out. During a stay in Teulada, a small town in southern Sardinia, I came across the local Monumento ai Caduti almost by accident. At first glance, it seemed to be one of those civic memorials that are so deeply embedded in the fabric of Italian towns that they …
Weiterlesen "Architecture of Remembrance: The Monument to the Fallen in Teulada (Sardinia)"
Architecture as Ethical Terrain Carmen Belmonte’s edited volume A Difficult Heritage. The Afterlives of Fascist-Era Art and Architecture is less a catalogue of monuments than a meditation on what happens when ideology hardens into stone. For those of us trained to read architecture not only as form but also as cultural instrument, the book offers …
Ulrike Gawlik, who has already made an important contribution to Italian studies with her dissertation on the Italian landscape architect Raffaele De Vico (published 2012), now broadens the view with her post-doctoral thesis to the quite mutual influences of Italy and Germany in the 'saddle period' around 1930. In her new book she delves into …
Luigi Monzo 