Book review of: Italy: Modern Architectures in History
When we think of the history of modern architecture the story might revolve around the Germans and the Bauhaus, but Diane Ghirardo’s Italy: Modern Architectures in History might give us pause, since it reminds us of a more fundamental driver of “the modern,” namely, the rise of the nation-state. Thi...
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University of California Press
2015
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| Online Erişim: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92585 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-8263 |
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| author | Jarzombek, Mark |
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| description | When we think of the history of modern architecture the story might revolve around the Germans and the Bauhaus, but Diane Ghirardo’s Italy: Modern Architectures in History might give us pause, since it reminds us of a more fundamental driver of “the modern,” namely, the rise of the nation-state. This was a significant aspect for the Prussians during the Enlightenment, and indeed some have argued that Friedrich Schinkel was, in a sense, the first modern for the Germans. But the German unification as such took place only in 1871, and though there are many parallels, the Italian situation was considerably more stressed, for they not only had to build a nation-state after 1861 out of the chaos of unification but also had to do so in the vortex of modern industrialization. Timing was everything; the Greeks won their independence in 1830, but the Greeks never accepted—or perhaps one can say embraced— “the crisis of modernity” in quite the same way as the Italians. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/925852022-10-02T02:51:49Z Book review of: Italy: Modern Architectures in History Jarzombek, Mark Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning Jarzombek, Mark When we think of the history of modern architecture the story might revolve around the Germans and the Bauhaus, but Diane Ghirardo’s Italy: Modern Architectures in History might give us pause, since it reminds us of a more fundamental driver of “the modern,” namely, the rise of the nation-state. This was a significant aspect for the Prussians during the Enlightenment, and indeed some have argued that Friedrich Schinkel was, in a sense, the first modern for the Germans. But the German unification as such took place only in 1871, and though there are many parallels, the Italian situation was considerably more stressed, for they not only had to build a nation-state after 1861 out of the chaos of unification but also had to do so in the vortex of modern industrialization. Timing was everything; the Greeks won their independence in 1830, but the Greeks never accepted—or perhaps one can say embraced— “the crisis of modernity” in quite the same way as the Italians. 2015-01-05T17:30:19Z 2015-01-05T17:30:19Z 2014-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 00379808 21505926 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92585 Jarzombek, Mark. “Book review of: Italy: Modern Architectures in History.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 3 (September 2014): 421–423. © 2014 by the Society of Architectural Historians https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-8263 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.421 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of California Press University of California Press |
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