BRUTALIST ITALY CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE FROM THE ALPS TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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ISBN:978-1-73988-783-4
EAN:9781739887834
Editorial: THAMES & HUDSON
Fecha de la edición:2023
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:200
Idiomas:INGLES

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makes Italian Brutalist buildings different from their counterparts in other countries? Containing over 140 exclusive photographs - ranging from private homes to churches and cemeteries via football stadia - across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject. Architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (authors of Soviet Asia) have spent the past five years travelling over 20,000 kilometres documenting the monumental concrete structures of their native country. Brutalism - with its minimalist aesthetic, favouring raw materials and structural elements over decorative design - has a complex relationship with Italian history. What After World War II, Italian architects were keen to distance themselves from fascism, without rejecting the architectural modernism that had flourished during that era. They developed a form of contemporary architecture that engaged with traditional methods and materials, drawing on uncontaminated historical references. This plurality of pasts assimilated into new constructions is a recurring feature of the country's Brutalist buildings, imparting to them a unique identity.