Lost in Translation

Elena Dellapiana

Elena Dellapiana Politecnico di Torino https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2447-0491

Keywords: Craftsmanship, Design, Made in Italy

Abstract

Book review:

Catharine Rossi, Crafting Design in Italy. From Post-war to Postmodernism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8940-4. € 92,99.

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Author Biography

Elena Dellapiana, Politecnico di Torino

Architect, PhD, is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design History in the Department of Architecture & Design at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). She is a scholar of architecture, town and design history of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with several papers and books on Italian and European architects and on the transmission of architectural culture in art academies, applied arts museums, the discussion about historical sources and historicism. In 2013 she collaborated to Made in Italy. Rethinking a Century of Italian Design edited by K. Fallan and G. Lees Maffey (Bloomsbury). She is one of the authors of Storia dell’architettura italiana: L’Ottocento edited by A. Restucci (Milan: Electa, 2005) and a member of several research groups. Among her recent publications: Il design della ceramica in Italia (1850-2000) (Milan: Electa, 2010) and Il design degli architetti italiani 1920-2000, with F. Bulegato (Milan: Electa, 2014). With G. Montanari, Una storia dell’architettura contemporanea (Torino: Utet, 2015).