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Modern architecture, empire, and race in fascist Italy
- Title
- Modern architecture, empire, and race in fascist Italy / by Brian L. McLaren.
- Author
- McLaren, Brian
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book explores the relationship between architecture and race that lingered beneath the surface of the author's previous research- beginning with his dissertation on modernity and indigenous culture in Italy's North African colonies in the History, Theory and Criticism Section"--
- Series Statement
- Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; volume 36
- Uniform Title
- Spatial practices ; 36.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Imperial ambitions ; Racial discontents ; Foundational arguments ; Sources and theoretical premises ; Organization and content -- Part 1 Modern urbanism and the territorialization of race : Introduction ; Rural urbanism, colonial urbanism -- 1 An Olympics of Civilization : Foundational acts ; The 1937 master plan ; The 1937 program -- 2 Commercial networks and colonial geographies : Foundational myths ; Organizational logic ; The 1938 master plan -- 3 Urban planning and racial politics : Addis Ababa, 1938 ; Esposizione Universal di Roma, 1938 ; Mostra d'Oltremare, 1939 -- Part 2 Modern architecture and racial eugenics : Introduction ; Art and race ; Architecture and race -- 4 An architecture of racial purification : First public competitions ; Piazza ed Edifici delle Forze Armate -- 5 An architecture of racial prestige : Public competitions ; Three sectors: mapping race ; The Padiglione della Libia: staging race -- 6 Autarchy in architecture : A journalistic discourse ; Autarchy at the E42 ; Artistic parallels -- Part 3 Architecture, racial politics and war : Introduction ; A wartime discourse ; A wartime mentality -- 7 A work of fascist labor : A process of construction ; A public ceremony ; A village and a palace -- 8 The war and the indigenous villages : Wartime constructions ; In the shadow of war ; Empire, race, and war -- 9 Architecture during wartime : A space of confinement ; A site of conflict -- Conclusion : Post(war) script.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 22-11744
- ISBN
- 9789004434592
- 9004434593
- LCCN
- 2021001693
- OCLC
- 1232011481
- Author
- McLaren, Brian, author.
- Title
- Modern architecture, empire, and race in fascist Italy / by Brian L. McLaren.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; volume 36Spatial practices ; 36.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- EXAMINES ARCHITECTURE IN RELATION TO RACIAL CONSTRUCTS FOLLOWING OCCUPATION OF ETHIOPIA IN 1936.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 22-11744