In search of Italianità : ethnography and national identity -- The picturesque revival : rusticity and contextualism -- Tabula rasa and tradition : futurism and rationalism between primitivism and Mediterraneità -- Engineering versus architecture: the vernacular between new objectivity and lyricism -- Continuity and reality : the vernacular resumed in postwar architecture and urbanism
Summary
Pride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s
