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The Second Reconstruction of Naples: the post-earthquake projects and the contribution of Michele Capobianco
No full textThe condominio: the new housing model during the Italian boom
No full textChiara Ingrosso addresses the Italian condominio of the 1950s and 1960s, a notion that shows that, unlike in the quasi-socialist housing regimes of the welfare states of northern Europe, postwar housing developments in southern Europe were outright liberal from the start. The period is known in Italy as the time of the economic “boom,” a phase in which governmental policy stimulated the production of a large number of apartments, and at the same time supported private property, thus making housing instrumental in the consolidation of the middle-class. The condominio was a mass housing “model” for the middle classes. As
an urban typological concept, the term also had a “declination”: the palazzina, corresponding to a different, more self-centered urban form. As “product homes,” condomini were also authored architectural objects, raising the question of the role of the architect in housing commodification. The paper refers to the cities of Milan and Rome, but it mainly makes the case for Naples, challenging its unfair marginalization in current architectural historiography
Stefania Filo Speziale and her Long-Overlooked Legacy to Twentieth Century Italian Architecture
No full textPost-war Italian collective dwellings: Naples, Rome, Milan
No full texte paper is focused on post-war Italian collective dwellings. e goal is to in- vestigate the private architectures realized in Italy in this period, with particular attention to some the Neapolitan architectures compared with Roman and Mil- anese architectures.
While for the public dwellings the critics is almost compact in identifying it excellence, as regards private housing, its attitude could be described as embar- rassed, preferring, as it were, to turn a blind eye to the work carried out in those years. However, the building with “apartments one on top of the other” of dif- ferent sizes was the task given to the architects in the boom years (1958-1963) as well as that of the maximum exploitation of land for speculative purposes. It has been shown that the model of urban growth in Italy in the 1950s was one of “concentration spontaneity”, devoid in most cases of any level of planning [Ferra- cuti, Marcelloni, 1983], and the buildings in Milan, as well as those in Naples or Rome, were planning solutions to similar demands
La città mediterranea e il turismo di massa, tra loisir e nuove paure in La città, il viaggio
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