{"product_id":"9788849297645","title":"Italian Modernisms: Architecture and construction in the twentieth century. Collana Architettura e Costruzione \/6 diretta dal Prof. Sergio Poretti","description":"The studies in this book focus on Italian twentieth-century architecture, in particular design and construction techniques. The descriptions of the worksites and building processes provide a much better and clearer picture of the different modernist styles that existed in Italy; they also reveal the ‘thin red line' that characterised an univocal construction method: mixed masonry enriched (and not replaced) by reinforced concrete – a technique well suited to small artisanal worksites. This was a mild version of modern construction, in line with the role construction played in slowing down an industrialisation process which in Italy was, in itself, slow. Each chapter illustrates a specific aspect of the history of construction and highlights several new issues involving architecture in general: the important tectonic similarities which one way or another link the Littorio style and the several different kinds of rationalisms in the thirties; the continuity between the autarchic experimentation and the techniques used in reconstruction; the connection between the large-scale works designed by engineers and the architectures of the fifties and sixties, which now appear to be one of the mainstays of the unique Italian Style.","brand":"Gangemi Editore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138962931952,"sku":"9788849297645","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788849297645_p0.jpg?v=1763755300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788849297645","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}