{"id":15932,"date":"2013-09-17T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/09\/20130917_archiusa-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T06:43:12","slug":"20130917_archiusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/09\/20130917_archiusa\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY-USA: The architecture of both countries in the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\u201cArchitecture and Identity\u201d, jointly organised by the Italian Consulate General and the PI-Philly (Italian Professionals in Philadelphia) association, with the participation of American and Italian \u201carchi-stars\u201d Peter Bohlin \u2013 designer of, among other things, the New York Apple Store\u2019s glass cube, and Paolo Desideri, noted for Rome\u2019s new Tiburtina railway station, took place over recent days in Philadelphia within the context of the events of the \u201cYear of Italy in the USA\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>US and Italian architecture face off<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>A packed press conference (over 200 persons) was moderated by noted architecture critic Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer. A brief welcome by the Italian Professionals, who acknowledged the Consulate General\u2019s role in organizing the event and, more in general, in promoting Italian culture, was followed by an introduction by Director of the &#8220;Center for Italian Studies&#8221; of the University of Pennsylvania Fabio Finotti. The director underscored the distinctions between US and Italian architecture, and the way in which some features of each are a reflection of the history and identity of both cultures.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cArchitecture and Identity\u201d, jointly organised by the Italian Consulate General and the PI-Philly (Italian Professionals in Philadelphia) association, with the participation of American and Italian \u201carchi-stars\u201d Peter Bohlin \u2013 designer of, among other things, the New York Apple Store\u2019s glass cube, and Paolo Desideri, noted for Rome\u2019s new Tiburtina railway station, took place over recent [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-15932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}