The Structural Wave: on “the Sincere Flattery to Technology” and Some International Fortune of Italian engineering in the Second Half of XX Century
Authors
Alessandro De Magistris1, *
1Department of Architecture and urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
*Corresponding author. Email: alessandro.demagistris@polimi.it
Corresponding Author
Alessandro De Magistris
Available Online 25 November 2021.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.158How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Postwar design culture; Transdisciplinarity; Cold War; Italian engineering; Eastern Europe architecture
- Abstract
Rooted in a historical path with solid academic roots and conditioned by the economic policies of the fascist regime, in the post WWII period the Italian engineering culture, and Pier Luigi Nervi enjoined an extraordinary international fortune that crossed the borders of the Cold war. The paper intends to highlight some key-aspects of this complex phenomenon, which in itself represents a fundamental and only partially written page in the history of architecture characterizing the developments of the design culture in the years of the Cold War, both in the West and in the Socialist world and in the USSR in particular.
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Alessandro De Magistris PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/25 TI - The Structural Wave: on “the Sincere Flattery to Technology” and Some International Fortune of Italian engineering in the Second Half of XX Century BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 111 EP - 117 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211125.158 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.158 ID - Magistris2021 ER -