Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43459-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime. This study is conducted through a wide-ranging investigation of two highly significant state-sponsored exhibitions, the 1942 Esposizione Universale di Roma and 1940 Mostra Triennale delle Terre Italiane d'Oltremare. These exhibitions and other related imperial displays are examined over an extended span of time to better understand how architecture, art, and urban space, the politics and culture that encompassed them, the processes that formed them, and the society that experienced them, were racialized in varying and complex ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

L McLaren, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Brian L. McLaren, Ph.D. (MIT, 2001), is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. He has published books, book chapters, and essays on the relationship between architecture and politics in Italy and its colonies during the Fascist era.