Kay Bea Jones (School of Architecture, Ohio State University, USA)
xxii, 347 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
Ashgate studies in architecture series
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introducing Franco Albini -- Modernity in the balance: Italy's equilibrium -- Albini's emergence from designer to architect -- The rationalist house, the modern room, and Albini's method -- Continuitá: CIAM and neorealism in postwar Italy -- The exhibition and the museum: Albini's pragmatic poetics -- Tradition's modern corollary in Cervinia and Rome -- Strange siblings: office buildings in Genoa and Parma -- Seeking order: urban plans, popular housing and furniture -- Modernity's weight: suspending optimism in two final museums