Call for Papers: Townscapes in transition. Transformation and reorganization of Italian cities and their architecture in the interwar period. Sorrento, 14-17 June 2018.
Session 24 at 38th annual conference of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), Sant’Anna Institute.
Social change after WW I led to an accelerated change in the built environment. Within a broad stylistic scope of architectural and urban design projects, the structural DNA of Italian historic cities offered a basic planning guideline. Historic paradigms determined not only trends in conservation but guided new approaches to architecture as well as urban and landscape design. The result was not a single strategy to ensure continuity in urban planning and architecture, but a multiplicity of formal principles and trends. The session proposes to clarify what methods Italian architects and urban planners used to take possession of a ‘Roman’ or ‘Italian’ building and planning tradition, and how they accommodated it to the modernization of their country.
Please submit via e-mail a 200-300-word abstract of the presentation, a brief biographical note and affiliation to Luigi Monzo (info@luigimonzo.de) by 30 December 2017. Please comply with conference guidelines .
The full call for papers can be found here.
The conference languages are Italian and English.
Session organizers and chairs: Luigi Monzo, University of Innsbruck (Austria) info@luigimonzo.de; Carmen M. Enss, University of Bamberg (Germany) carmen.enss@uni-bamberg.de