Suspending Modernity

Sinossi

contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introducing Franco Albini
2 Modernity in the Balance: Italy's Equilibrium
3 Albini's Emergence from Designer to Architect
4 The Rationalist House, the Modern Room, and Albini's Method
5 Continuita: CIAM and Neorealism in Post-war Italy
6 The Exhibition and the Museum: Albini's Pragmatic Poetics
7 Tradition's Modern Corollary in Cervinia and Rome
8 Strange Siblings: Office Buildings in Genoa and Parma
9 Seeking Order: Urban Plans, Popular Housing and Furniture
10 Modernity's Weight: Suspending Optimism in Two Final Museums
Appendix 1: Albini on Tradition
Appendix 2: Renzo Piano's "Pezzo per Pezzo": Recollections of a Studio Albini Intern
Index