Project Details
Description
The project aims to study the construction of foreign diplomatic architecture in the 1960s in Rome, Italy. The main case study is Det Danske Institut i Rom (1967), but the project considers also the Japan Cultural Institute (1962) and the British Embassy (1968). Their construction had many converging aspects. They all practiced a mono-material construction, from scratch, following home architectural building traditions, though displaced on Italian ground. Similarly, their current historiography is widely forged around authorial master-dominations: where each construction was conceived only by a famous architect. However, this project aims to widen the field, through recognising its many 'blind spots', and to include all those actors not credited and recognised yet: the unheard workers.
Short title | Unheard workers |
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Status | Finished |
Effective start/end date | 01/08/2021 → 30/11/2023 |
Keywords
- history and theory of architecture
- diplomatic architecture
- welfare state
- cold war
- decolonization
- colonialism
- Labour