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This is the first book in English on the architectural work of the influential French architect, urban planner, teacher, and writer Fernand Pouillon (1912-86). Among the essays are ones from architectural critic and historian Jacques Lucan offering a rich analysis of Pouillon's postwar urbanism and its critique of mainstream modernism and Adam Caruso delving into Pouillon's use of materials. The book also features photographs of Pouillon's key projects.

This is the first book in English to focus on the work of the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-86), whose firm, Asnago Vender, transformed midcentury Milan. At the end of World War II, Milan was architecturally stagnant, with few recent constructions of interest to complement its historic core. Soon, however, Milan was the center of a number of remarkably creative architectural visions--not least of them that of Asnago Vender. Through their many building commissions, to which they brought a clean, modernist aesthetic, they helped to create the vibrant,...