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Ernesto Nathan Rogers
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The Modern Movement in Italy: Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Ernesto Nathan Rogers was an Italian architect and designer whose postwar practice centered on the integration of modernism with regional building traditions and craft values. A founding figure in the Rationalist movement, Rogers championed architecture as a social instrument and wrote extensively on the relationship between design and everyday life. His work spanned residential, civic, and institutional commissions across Italy, informed by a philosophy that rejected both nostalgic historicism and functionalist dogma in favor of a measured humanism.
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