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`The Italian Retreat from Modern Architecture: Gio Ponti, Neoliberty and others
`The Italian Retreat from Modern Architecture: Gio Ponti, Neoliberty and others

Italy is decentralized in Europe, south side reppin
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Difficult position in the way they accept refugees, pressures
Italy have never been absolute

1860- unified by man but not unified in region, approaches to life, culture and language vary great amounts between cities of Italy.

1959? Reyner Banham Neoliberty, the Italian retreat from modern architecture
Attacking unideolistic new Italian architects that were trying to be edictal in the way they developed architecture, just interested in themselves

Guido Canella, a page from the article on the 'Amsterdam School' Reyner Banham, conclusion of his article in The Architectural Review Ernesto Nathan Rogers, ‘Continuita' o crisi?' (Continuity of crisis?), Casabella, no. 215, April-May 1957 early 20th century example of modern architecture, not an white clean architecture of machine
Banham is English, cannot understand how Italians perceived architecture, they did not see it was something that could revolutionize or save the world.
‘Neoliberty’ the type of architecture that was used in certain parts of Europe around the end of 19th century beginning of 20th common ground, trying to shift from 18th and 19th century architecture but was not interested in architecture as a machine and that direction
Banham is much more black and white,

Casabella, no. 215, April-May 1957, content page with image of project in Le Havre by Perret

Edoardo Persico, Sala della Vittoria (Victory Room), VI Triennale, Milan, 1936
Adalberto Libera, Casa Malaparte, Capri island, Naples, 1938-40
Window Frames- full of matter
Floor- not a functionist type of modernist
Window back of fireplace, sense of merging with the sun and the yellow orange flames of the fire.

Gio Ponti born 1891-1979, generation of Le Corbs product of Italy TM most prominent architect that tried to understand bourgeois importance of

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