Building Transatlantic Italy

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the American model becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. This book questions how effective the circulation of US-originated knowledge was: regarding the Italian-American exchange, identifying what was exported from America is as interesting and significant as recognizing what was received or rejected. This investigation into the Italian-American exchange in architecture and planning is situated in the larger context of post-war dissemination and diffusion of American cultural models.