Casali in España : una mirada made in Italy a orillas del Mediterráneo = Casali in Spain : a look made in Italy on the shores of the Mediterranean

The book “Imagining the Mediterranean house. Italy and Spain in the 50s” focus the issue of the Mediterranean house in a historic moment in which strong links and exchanges are established between these two countries; relationships focused on overcoming the architectural “failures” of yesteryear, thanks to the recovery of indigenous values, typical of southern latitudes. José Antonio Coderch becomes an active correspondent, from Spain, of the mythical Italian magazine Domus, directed at that time by Gio Ponti. His teaching, focused on an original production of domestic architecture in the Mediterranean context will influence projects of the coast of great relevance, such as those of Federico Correa and Alfonso Milá, or Peter Harnden and Lanfranco Bombelli, disseminated through the pages of this prestigious magazine Italian. The Domus photographer Giorgio Casali went to Spain to record a set of pictures that constituted a paradigmatic synthesis of the vernacular Mediterranean which at that time was beginning to embrace modernity.