This section will investigate, through the analysis of exemplary case studies, the characteristics of some significant Mediterranean cities that will represent the other side of modern architecture between the end of the Nineteen Twenties and the beginning of the Nineteen Forties.
Only cities on the South-East Mediterranean will be taken into consideration:
- the North African coast (Tangiers, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Alexandria);
- the coast of the Middle East (Tel Aviv, Beirut);
- Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, the Dodecanese Islands: Rhodes, Kos, Leros);
- ’Albania (Tirana);
- Central and Southern Italy (Rome-E42, Latina, Bari, Taranto, Reggio, Messina, Catania, Palermo, Naples)
The exhibition will be divided into five thematic sub-sections: