Architecture of the Italian Enlightenment, 1750–1800 -- Napoleon in Italy, 1800–1815 -- Restoration and Romanticism, 1815–1860 -- Unification and the Nation’s Capitals, 1860–1900.“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms o…
Architects of the Avant-Garde, 1900s–1920s -- Architecture during the Fascism Regime, 1922–1944 -- Postwar Reconstruction, 1944–1968 -- Italian Architecture for the Next Millennium, 1968–2000.“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contr…