Canons and Icons: Re-Wondering a Transcultural Contaminatio

Acknowledgment

Angela Gigliotti, Chiara Monterumisi and MoniCA Prencipe
Introduction

Wanders & Encounters

Carlotta Torricelli
The Two Sides of Swedish Neoclassicism. The Tension of Compositional Quests in Carl August Ehrensvärd

Espen Johnsen
Architectural Order and Complexity. Visual Strategies in Blakstad and Munthe-Kaas’s Italian Study Tours

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Aalto’s Swerve

Tom Davies and Gabrielle Kielland Friis
From Archeology to Post-war Architecture. The Work of Anne Tinne Kielland Friis and Mogens Lønborg Friis

Media & Communication

Elena Ghiacci
A Dutch Connection. Roots of the Italian Interest Towards Dutch Culture

Fabio Ferrarini
Echoes of Rome in the Far North. The Bimillenary of Augustus and the Norwegian Cultural Caravan

Figures

Guillermo S. Arsuaga
«An Island Without Architects». When MoMA Met Lanzarote

Rosana Rubio Hernández and Fernando Nieto Fernández
Nordic Imprints on Spanish Architecture. A Long Perspective

Rebecca Carrai
Governance by Home Design. Ikea’s Mission to ‘Swedishise’ Italy

Agencies and Infrastructures

Peyman Akhgar
Twentieth-Century Iran and the Genesis of Architectural Education. The Role of the École des Beaux-Arts

Marco Moro
Theories in Practice. Enrico Tedeschi Between Italy and Cono Sur

Vendula Hnídková
Garden Cities Movement in Motion. The Czech Lands as Transformer and Transmitter of the Urban Reform Vision

Melissa Rovner
The Bungalow as a Mediator of Modernity. Translations in Town Planning Beyond East-West Binary Constructs

Afterward

Frederike Lausch
On the construction of transnationalism and transculturalism through Unesco

Authors’ Bios