Modern architecture and Italian vernacular tradition

Michelangelo Sabatino

( Franco Angeli Edizioni , Milan, 2013)

Friday, May 16, 2014 | 17:30

Through a careful historical reconstruction and exciting, Michelangelo Sabatino reveals the constant presence during the twentieth century, in Italian architecture, a vernacular tradition. 

Among the various commonplaces who undertakes to subvert, this book challenges the prevailing assumption that under the Fascist architecture was limited to the exploitation of classicism. Also proves abundantly clear that the vernacular tradition was by no means homogenous, but so varied and diverse as are the regions of Italy. 
Through a careful reading of the literature, ethnography, iconography, as well as architecture, Sabatino arrives to demonstrate how the multiple re-appropriations of traditional patterns of rural housing and craftsmanship have contributed in their entirety to the path of Italy towards modernity. 

Michelangelo Sabatino is a professor at the University of Houston, where he is director of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. After graduating from IUAV in Venice, he continued his studies in Canada and the United States. He edited, with Jean-François Lejeune, volume, Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (2010), and is the author of the text Concrete Visionary: Arthur Erickson and Canadian Modern Architecture (2013). 

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