Despite a venerable legacy of outstanding architecture, Rome is now in a crisis of bland globalized modernist styles, argues Mazzola (U. of Rome "La Sapienza"; Rome studies program, U. of Notre
Dame School of Architecture). Through education, he seeks to reverse this trend driven by designers in multinational firms, architectural magazines, and political ideologies rather than local
architectural traditions and needs. Color photographs illustrate what he deems good and bad examples of building and urban design. A chapter is devoted to the lauded work of Pier Carlo
Bontempi. The bilingual English-Italian text is distributed in the U.S. by International Publisher's Marketing (IPM). Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
