Anonymous as a Theme of Discontinuity in the Culture of Italian Architecture between the First and Second Halves of the 20th Century

Giovanni Leoni

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/6727

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Giovanni Leoni University of Bologna

The research about Anonymous in Italian Post-War Architecture (Cosmopolitismo vs internazionalismo: la questione dello “stile” agli esordi di Gabetti e Isola, conference proceedings, Roberto Gabetti, Politecnico di Torino, 25-27 November 2015; L’Anonimo come tema di discontinuità nella cultura architettonica italiana tra Primo e Secondo Novecento, in C. Togliani (ed.), Un palazzo in forma di parole. Scritti in onore di Paolo Carpeggiani, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016; In memoria dell’altra resistenza: il Museo-Monumento dei BBPR a Carpi, in VV. AA., Il Museo-Monumento dei BBPR a Carpi, Bologna, BUP, 2016) is related to other ongoing studies and speci cally: the different gures of architectural creativity in John Ruskin’s writings (The Commandment Written within Things. John Ruskin and the Issue of Restoration, in J. Ruskin, St. Mark’s Rest, M. Pretelli (ed.), S. Arcangelo di Romagna, Politecnico di Milano, Maggioli Editore, Collana Politecnica, 2010); Anonymous in Post-War Portuguese Architecture (Cosmopolitism vs Internationalism in Contemporary Portuguese Architecture: Távora, Siza and Souto Moura, in F. Bethencourt (ed.), Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-Speaking Countries, Leiden, Brill, 2017).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/6727

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anonymous vs personality, cosmopolitanism vs internationalism, Ernesto N. Rogers, Leonardo Ricci, Gabetti & Isola

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The physical destruction of the architectural heritage as a result of the war and the experience of political and racial discrimination, then deportation, deeply marked the culture of Italian architecture during the transition between the first and second halves of the 20th century, changing its cultural sensitivity and paradigms. Among the themes that characterise the change there is the reflection on the Anonymous not as an appeal to popular architectural cultures instead of designer-based, but rather as a change in the structure of the creative personality of the designer in the relationship between individual conception of architectural form and the multipersonal dimension of architectural work.

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