Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter, he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.

Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth, mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production, concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.

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Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter, he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.

Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth, mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production, concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.

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Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

by Flavia Marcello
Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

Giuseppe Pagano: Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy

by Flavia Marcello

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Overview

Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture, media, design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer, curator, photographer, editor, writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter, he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.

Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth, mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production, concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.


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ISBN-13: 9781789381016
Publisher: Intellect Books
Publication date: 01/15/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 33 MB
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About the Author

Flavia Marcello is associate professor of architectural history at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a world expert on the art and architecture of the Italian Fascist period and also researches the legacy of Fascism in contemporary society.


Flavia Marcello is associate professor at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. She has had industry experience as a professional development manager at the Australian Institute of Architects and as a curriculum development consultant at Box Hill Institute in Mont Albert.

Table of Contents

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Contents 

Acknowledgements 

Foreword

Introduction: A Rebel with a Cause

Chapter 1: Pagano the Young Man: The Formation of an Idealist from Porec to Turin (1896–1926)

Chapter 2: Pagano the Architect: Architecture as a Force for Social Change (1927–1941)

Chapter 3: Pagano the Writer: The Voice for an Alternative Modernism (1930–1943)

Chapter 4: Pagano the Exhibition Designer: Art in the Service of an Idea (1928–1940)

Chapter 5: Pagano the Photographer: Snapshots of the Real Italy (1935–1943)

Chapter 6: Pagano The Fighter: The Life and Death of a Partisan From Milan to Mauthausen (January 1941–April 1945)

Chapter 7: Giuseppe Pagano, Polemical Photographer

Chapter 8: Elemental Housing: Giuseppe Pagano’s Neorealist Ethos

Building Information Sheets

Anthology of Writings

List of Illustrations

References

Filmography

Endnotes

Index

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