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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Introducing Franco Albini 1
2 Modernity in the Balance: Italy’s Equilibrium 17
3 Albini’s Emergence from Designer to Architect 51
4 The Rationalist House, the Modern Room, and Albini’s Method 85
5 Continuità: CIAM and Neorealism in Post-war Italy 121
6 The Exhibition and the Museum: Albini’s Pragmatic Poetics 143
7 Tradition’s Modern Corollary in Cervinia and Rome 185
8 Strange Siblings: Office Buildings in Genoa and Parma 213
9 Seeking Order: Urban Plans, Popular Housing and Furniture 245
10 Modernity’s Weight: Suspending Optimism in Two Final Museums 279
Appendix 1: Albini on Tradition 321
Appendix 2: Renzo Piano’s “Pezzo per Pezzo:” Recollections of a Studio Albini Intern 323
Index 327