Milano moderna

This volume takes up the core of the now historical and unobtainable publication Milano Moderna (1996), expanding that pioneering research on Milanese architectural culture to the new Milan of the beginning of the millennium, with a rigorous critical and interpretative approach.

The book is intended to be a contribution “to the ability of the Lombard metropolis to offer itself as a laboratory of an unconventional culture of change” and is conceived as the interweaving of a double plane of reading, textual and visual.
The text is signed by Fulvio Irace, one of the most authoritative Italian critics and scholars of architecture, the visual atlas, with large-format images, is entrusted, for the modern part to the photographs of masters such as Gabriele Basilico and Paolo Rosselli, for the contemporary part to high-profile professionals such as Marco Introini, Filippo Romano and Giovanna Silva. A chapter is devoted to the usually neglected theme of the profound relationship between public art and architecture, in continuity with a specificity of postwar Milanese culture.

AUTHOR
Fulvio Irace – Among the leading scholars of architecture in Italy, he is full professor of History of Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. His research activity, focused mainly on Italian architecture, has resulted in numerous monographs including those dedicated to Gio Ponti, Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Vico Magistretti.