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SUMMARY:Neighbours Vol. 8: Lucia Allais. Topographic Modernism: Architectu
 re and Nature on Italy’s Coast\, ca. 1960
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DESCRIPTION:Lucia Allais (Columbia University)\nLucia Allais (Columbia Uni
 versity)\nTopographic Modernism: Architecture and Nature on Italy’s Coas
 t\, ca. 1960\n\nBio: \nLucia Allais is an architectural historian of the 
 modern period. She works on architecture and internationalism and institut
 ions\; the technical and philosophical history of materials\; the particip
 ation of buildings and design actors in political culture and global gover
 nance\; architecture’s historiography\, and epistemologies of time. Her 
 first book\, Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twent
 ieth Century (University of Chicago Press\, 2018) described how a new def
 inition of “the monument” arose from various plans within liberal inte
 rnationalist organizations to protect and salvage famous building from des
 truction in the middle of the 20th Century. This includes the making of li
 sts and maps of monuments “not to be bombed” by American art historian
 s during World War II\, the decolonization of museums in the global South 
 at the hands of organizations from the League of Nations to UNESCO\, and t
 he salvage of massive building complexes\, such as the temples of Abu Simb
 el\, by global multidisciplinary consortia.\n\nAllais has published a numb
 er of essays on related themes. “Architecture and Mediocracy at Unesco H
 ouse” (in Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions\, ed. Massey and 
 Berdgoll\, Lars Mueller\, 2018) describes the fraught collaborative design
  of the UNESCO headquarter in Paris. “The Real and the Theoretical\, 196
 8” (in Perspecta 42\, 2010) uncovers a never-realized plan for a “Har
 lem school” produced by Peter Eisenman of the Institute for Architecture
  and Urban Studies (IAUS) in collaboration with the New York Urban League.
  “Rendering: On Experience and Experiments” (in Design Technics\, ed.
  May and Çelik Alexander\, Minnesota: 2021) is an essay-length history of
  rendering informed by changing theories of experience\, media and technol
 ogy. She recently published an introduction to three translations of texts
  by Alois Riegl\, “Mood for Modernists” (in Grey Room 80: Winter 2020)
 .
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