Università Roma Tre

This course examines the history of Italian architecture in the 1900s, focusing on the years between the two World Wars and on the second post-war period.
The first part of the course is dedicated to the leading figures, the themes and the works of the Fascist period in Turin, Milan and Rome. The purpose is to highlight the dialogue between Italian architectural culture and the new European debates while studying the peculiarities of Italian architecture and its relationship with local tradition.
The second half examines the post-World War II period, starting with the reconstruction projects until the Post-Modern debate, brought to the attention by Paolo Portoghesi during the 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2915, Einaudi, Torino 2013
Giorgio Ciucci, Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-1944, Einaudi, Torino 1986
Manfredo Tafuri, History of the Italian Architecture, 1944-1985, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989