Italy : the new domestic landscape : achievements and problems of italian design / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with Centro Di, Florence ; edited by Emilio Ambasz

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Preface -- Introduction (by Emilio Ambasz) -- Objects selected for their formal and technical means -- Objects selected for their sociocultural implications -- Objects selected for their implications of more flexible patterns of use and arrangement -- Environments: introduction -- Design program -- Design as postulation: Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, Mario Bellini -- Design as commentary: Gaetano Pesce -- Counterdesign as postulation: Ugo La Pietra, Archizoom, Superstudio, Gruppo Strum, Enzo Mari -- Winners of the competition for young designers: Gianantonio Mari, Group 9999. -- Historical articles: Introduction -- Art nouveau in Italy (by Paolo Portoghesi) -- The futurist construction of the universe (by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'arco) -- The beginning of modern research, 1930-1940 (by Leonardo Bonevolo) -- Italian design 1945-1971 (by Vittorio Gregotti). -- Critical articles: Introduction -- Italian design in relation to social and economic planning (by Ruggero Cominotti) -- Housing policy and the goals of design in Italy (by Italo Insolera) -- Ideological development in the thought and imagery of italian design (by Giulio Carlo Argan) -- The land of good design (by Alessandro Mendini) -- Radical architecture (by Germano Celant) -- Design and technological utopia (by Manfredo Tafuri) -- A design for new behaviors (by Filiberto Menna).