Seven Forgotten Masters. Nanus positus super humeros gigantis

Abstract

At the end of the 1950s, Casabella, at that time directed by Ernesto Nathan Rogers, published a series of articles and monographic issues as intended contributions to the rediscovering of some authors that history and critics had marginalised from dominant culture. Casabella’s objective was to give a new reading of the lesson of those architects seen at the time as proto-rationalists and proto-moderns (even anti-modernists), and in doing so providing an operational point of view aimed to maketheir thought well known. Likewise the present issues of FAM has the purpose of enquiring the bodies of work of a number of forgotten masters, exploring the actual reasons behind their sheer dismissal, that for so long has cut across the history of modern architecture, and to reconsider how contemporary the lesson of those architetects actually is.

Keywords

• constantinos doxiadis
• sedad eldem
• hassan fathy
• peter harnden
• bernard rudofsky
• edward durell stone
• william wurster