Ernesto Nathan Rogers

The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual

Ernesto Nathan Rogers

The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual

Maurizio Sabini (Author)

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Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the Politecnico in Milan, Rogers ensured a lasting influence on the field as a practitioner, theorist and educator. However his contributions have been largely neglected by scholarship outside of Italy.

Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book re-assesses Ernesto Nathan Rogers' cultural legacy. It is the first comprehensive, critical work on Rogers in English, and emphasizes Rogers' vision for the role of the architect as a public intellectual, as well as his commitment to pursue a renewed path of professional and cultural research within the “Modern Project.”

The book also discusses Roger's willingness to challenge academic classicized monumentality as well as modernist stereotypes, to emerge as a leader of Italian design in the aftermath of World War II; his interest in all scales of design and planning, with a cross-disciplinary mentality; tradition in modernity; and criticality as a mode of practice, to bring a detailed account of the work and thought of Ernesto Nathan Rogers to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

With a foreword by Kenneth Frampton.

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Series Preface

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton

Acknowledgements

Note on Translation

Ernesto Nathan Rogers Biography

Introduction

1. Criticality

2. Social Engagement

3. Teamwork

4. Cross-Disciplinarity

5. Internationalism

6. Masters

7. History

8. Civic Commitment and the Public Intellectual

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Product details

Published	11 Feb 2021
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	248
ISBN	9781350117426
Imprint	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations	87 bw illus
Series	Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Maurizio Sabini

His design intelligence unconstrained by his mastery of modernist method, Ernesto N. Rogers, as this book amply demonstrates, created buildings equally appropriate to their time and to their place.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin, Ireland
The first account in English of the work of an important Italian modern architect and post-war CIAM leader. This book will be an excellent resource for teaching and scholarship worldwide on key ideas in modern architecture and urbanism.

Eric Paul Mumford, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
The architect as an artist, an intellectual, and a civic figure: by envisaging all the aspects of an essential figure of Italian post-war architecture, this study proposes a stimulating reflection on modernism as a global project.

Antoine Picon, Harvard University, USA
Maurizio Sabini offers a stimulating survey of Rogers's architectural career.

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