Architettura italiana oggi = Italy's architecture today / by Pagani, Carlo, 1913-

“…Italy's architecture today.…”

Architecture in the age of reason : baroque and post-baroque in England, Italy, and France. by Kaufmann, Emil

40 architects around 40 = 40 Architekten um die 40 = 40 architectes dans leur 40aine / by Thompson, Jessica Cargill, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…. -- STUDIO ARCHEA: Single family house, Bergamo, Italy. -- Stop Line recreation centre, Curno (near Bergamo), Italy. -- Single family house, Leffe (near Bergamo), Italy. -- ARCHITECTUS: Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Sciences building, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zeland. -- Clifford/Forsyth House, Auckland, New Zeland. -- ARTTO PALO ROSSI TIKKA: Sibelius Congress and Concert Hall, Lahti, Finland. -- Raisio Library Auditorium, Raisio, Finland. -- ASYMPTOTE: Technology Culture Museum, New York, USA. -- Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California, USA. -- SHIGERU BAN: Wall-less House, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan. -- Paper Church, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. -- Japanese Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany. …”

The future of architecture, since 1889 / by Cohen, Jean-Louis, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Architecture's expanded field -- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel -- The search for modern form -- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression -- American rediscovered, tall and wide -- The challenge of the metropolis -- New production, new aesthetic -- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism -- The Great War and its side effects -- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands -- Return to order in Paris -- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism -- Architectural education in turmoil -- Architecture and revolution in Russia -- The architecture of social reform -- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy -- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms -- North American modernities -- Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Modern languages conquer the world -- COlonial experiences and new nationalism -- Architecture of a total war -- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives -- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted -- The shape of American hegemony -- Repression and diffusion of modernism -- Toward new utopias -- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture -- After 1968: architecture for the city -- The postmodern season -- From regionalism to critical internationalism -- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech -- Architecture's outer boundaries -- Vanishing points.…”
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