
Brian L. McLarenUniversity of Washington | UW · Department of Architecture
Brian L. McLaren
Doctor of Philosophy
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This paper examines the architecture and planning of the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples—a national display of colonial expansion that opened in May 1940—and the Esposizione Universale di Roma—an “Olympics of Civilization” that was proposed for 1942. These two major exhibitions will be studied in relation to Italy's violent and racially motivated Impe...
In the Italian colony of Libya during the course of the 1920s and 1930s there developed an extensive and quite elaborate tourist
system that facilitated travel through the Mediterranean coastal region as well as deep into the pre-Saharan interior. This
system combined what was among the most advanced networks of transportation and accommodation of...
This essay examines the discourse on local culture in Italian colonial Libya and the related use of indigenous building forms by architects working in the region. During the course of the 1930s two distinct approaches to the appropriation of local forms emerged in architectural discourse. The earliest of these tendencies,which beganwith thework and...
Mia Fuller, Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 280pp. 74 figures. Bibliography. £58.00 - - Volume 34 Issue 2 - Brian L. McLaren
To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan culture brought its systems of transportation and accommodation, as well as new hierarchies of political and social control. Architecture and To...
This dissertation examines the intersection of the modern and the colonial in architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa from 1911 to 1943. Rather than see the colonies as merely a projection of the metropolitan context, this research reverses this relationship by examining how colonialism was crucial to the...
In a December 1937 article entitled “Visione Mediterranea della mia architettura,” architect Florestano Di Fausto speaks of his approach to an architecture for Italy’s Mediterranean colonies—an architecture which he asserts had always been, and should continue to be, based upon a careful reading of the local architecture. In an impassioned discussi...
With the advent of technical reproduction, the publication of architecture, as a medium through which architectural ideas have been disseminated, has both conditioned our understanding of architecture and exacted profound changes within the very art that it has reproduced. In this article I investigate this twofold phenomenon, using the example of...