Gio Ponti and Villa Namazee: (De)listed Modern Heritage by Asma Mehan

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Rome / Kabul / Rome: Elective Affinities and an Embassy ProjectThe First Italian Embassy in Kabul by Michela Rosso

“…As both symbols of the State and places devoted to the representation of sovereignty, embassies represent an aspect of the “conspicuous visibility” of Italians abroad that still deserves some critical attention. …”
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celebration in the city by Elena Grigoryeva

“…“They do”, says the FORBES LIFE and publishes the list of top 10 most promising cities in Russia, which includes Irkutsk. …”
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In Search of a Cultural Background by Mario Canato

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Le patrimoine monumental du comté de Nice entre France et Piémont, d’une histoire nationale à l’autre 1830-1930 by Alain Bottaro

“…A new dynamic began to affect historic monuments after 1848 when the House of Savoy became involved in the process of Italian unification. The question of style became a highly political issue in Northern Italy, where architects of historicist inspiration sought to forge a national architectural style suitable for the new nation. …”
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Editorial by Elena Mussinelli

“…NOTES 1 “Osservazioni del Coordinamento delle Associazioni Tecnico-scientifiche per l’Ambiente e il Paesaggio al PNRR”, 2021. 2 EU Guidelines, SWD-2021-12 final, 21.1.2021. 3 For instance, we can consider the 7,000 km of dismissed railways, with related buildings and areas. 4 The two seven-year activities of the Plan (1949-1963) promoted by Amintore Fanfani, Minister of Labor and Social Security at the time, represented both an employment and a social maneuver, which left us the important legacy of neighborhoods that still today they have their own precise identity, testimony of the architectural culture of the Italian twentieth century. But also a «grandiose machine for the housing» (Samonà, 1949), based on a clear institutional and organizational reorganization, with the establishment of a single body (articulated in the plan implementation committee, led by Filiberto Guala, with regulatory functions of disbursement of funds, assignment of tasks and supervision, and in the INA-Casa Management directed by the architect Arnaldo Foschini, then dean of the Faculty of Architecture), which led to the construction of two million rooms for over 350,000 families. …”
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Pictori scenografi în secolul al XIX-lea la Teatrul cel Mare din București by Ana Traci

“…Starting in 1853 all the way to the end of the 19th century the theatre inventory lists scenic objects, decor and costumes – definitive proof of Western influence. …”
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