Gio Ponti. Amare l'architettura

Maristella Casciato is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Bologna - School of Architecture 'Aldo Rossi' in Cesena, and Chair of DOCOMOMO International. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Visiting Professorship at the Institut national d'histoire d'art in Paris. She has been Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, at the MIT Department of Architecture, and at Cornell University's Rome Program. She has published widely in architectural journals and has contributed essays to numerous publications on architectural subjects. Fulvio Irace is Professor of History of Architecture at Milan Polytechnic, he is principally concerned with historiographic issues in Italian architecture, to which he has devoted numerous exhibitions (Anni Trenta, 1982; Carlo Mollino, 1989; Milano Moderna, 1990; Gio Ponti, 1992, etc.) and books (Gio Ponti: la casa all italiana, 1988; Giovanni Muzio, 1989; Renzo Piano: le citta visibili, 2007) which have opened up new interpretations of the relationship between international culture and local cultures in the development of the idea of modernity.

Contents: 1 - Introductions by: Paolo Rosselli, Giovanna Melandri, Margherita Guccione; 2 - Essays by: Anna Chiara Cimoli, Salvatore Licitra, Massimiliano Savorra, Maria Teresa Feraboli, Luigi Spinelli, Francesca Zanella, Stefania Mornati, Paolo Campiglio, Silvia Bignami, Alessandra Muntoni, Elena Tinacci, Fabio Mangone, Alberto Gavazzi, Filippo De Pieri, Jorge Rivas, Anat Falbel, Angelica Ponzio, Hannia Gomez, Fulvio Irace, Manolo De Giorgi, Valentina Marchetti, Bernard Colenbrander, Farhan Karim, Sergio Pace, Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Rejean Legault, Domitilla Dardi, Fabio Colonnese, Elena Dellapiana, Barry Bergdoll, Lucia Miodini, Giorgio Ciucci, Daria Ricchi, Giovanni Marzari, Manuela Leoni, Cecilia Rostagni, Roberto Dulio; 3 - Biography; 4 - Bibliography.