Maurizio Sabini - Ernesto Nathan Rogers: The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual

T his book would have not been possible without the encouragement, support and help of the following individuals to whom go my sincerest thanks: Ernesto Nathan Rogers former collaborators Prof. Luciano Semerani and Prof. Vittorio Gregotti ( in memoriam); Prof. Kenneth Frampton and Prof. Eric Mumford; Ricciarda Belgiojoso and Prof. Alberico Belgiojoso Jr. of Studio Belgiojoso, Milan; Anna Steiner, Milan; colleagues: Federico Bucci, Stamatina Kousidi, Raffaella Neri, Sara Protasoni (Politecnico di Milano), Gino Malacarne (Universit di Bologna Cesena Campus), Paola Di Biagi, Giovanni Fraziano, and Alessandra Marin (Universit degli Studi di Trieste), Lina Malfona (Universit degli Studi di Pisa), and Andreea Mihalache (Clemson University). Although not directly involved in my research, I would like to acknowledge, for their outstanding scholarship on Rogers, colleagues Luca Molinari (Universit della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), and, especially, Serena Maffioletti (IUAV, Venice, Italy), whose works provided me with a trove of resources and documents to rely on and without which this study would just not have been possible. Special thanks for their support to Dean Robert Weddle, Hammons School of Architecture (HSA), and Provost Beth Harville of Drury University, as well as to all the HSA faculty for having shared the burden of a colleague on sabbatical leave in the fall of 2018.

My most heartfelt thanks to the many librarians who helped me in this effort: Director William Garvin, Katherine Bohnenkamper, Barbi Dickensheet, Holli Henslee, Jacqueline Tygart, and, especially, Phyllis Holzenberg, for her extraordinary help with the inter-library loan (Olin Library, Drury University);

Chris Brady, Alison Carrick, Jason Miller, Kate Goldkamp, and Ian Lanius at the Olin Library, and Jennifer Akins at the Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library (Washington University in St. Louis); Ines Zalduendo (Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design); Rita Lucia Ferraro, Antonella Mariani, Nadia Paolucci (Universit di Bologna Cesena Campus); Carmela Cirulli, Lucilla Lalumera, Daniela Piscitelli, Sonia Pasqualin (Biblioteca Campus Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano). Special thanks to arch. Gloria Alberti (Cesena, It.) for her help in library research.

For image research, my thanks go to arch. Diana Carta (Rome); author and photographer Gianni Peteani (Trieste); visual artist Fabrizio Giraldi and arch. Manuela Schirra (Trieste); Laura Gatti, Nadia Piccirillo, Giuseppina Simmi (Civico Archivio Fotografico, Musei del Castello Sforzesco, Milan), and Dr. Silvia Paoli (Civico Archivio Fotografico, Area Soprintendenza Castello, Milan); Dr. Elena Ottina (Servizio Raccolte Artistiche, Ufficio Iconografico, Biblioteca Castello Sforzesco, Milan); Bruno Daita and Dr. Giovanna Mori (Unit Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Bertarelli, Area Soprintendenza Castello Sforzesco, Milan); Elvia Redaelli (Triennale Milano); arch. Patrizia Dellavedova and arch. Maurizio Tomio (Comune di Legnano, Milan) and arch. Paola Ferri (Comune di Magenta, Milan); Luisa Alberton (Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, Ivrea, It.); Francesca Maria Cadin (Teche, RAI, Rome); Caroline Dagbert (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal); Caroline L. Hirsch (Esto, New York); Sheila Schwartz (The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York); and Andreu Carrascal Simon (Historic Archives, Collegi dArquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona).