Identifying the root of this convergence in an academic and professional educational system based on the idea of the "complete architect", trained to work at any scale of design, this paper frames the work of the architect-designers within the cultural, economic and manufacturing context of the period between the 1920s and 1980s, when for historical reasons their role became particularly significant. The histories of Italian design and architecture may be more readily understood if one considers that many of the protagonists are architect-designers. Her Renaissance in Design Today embarcada en un tour de tres años por los museos Americanos, enseñando objetos y ambientes diseñados en la Italia de la reconstrucción postbélica por destacados arquitectos incluyendo Carlos Mollino y Gio Ponti. Se inicia en 1950, cuando los americanos y los italianos comisariaron y financiaron la exhibición Italy at Work. Resumen El artículo explora los diálogos transatlánticos en el diseño durante el periodo de postguerra y la manera en que América miró a Italia como alternativa a la corriente convencional definida por el consumo industrial capitalista. The exhibition led to the production and retail of Italian-designed wares by several US firms, contributing to Italian design's popularity in the States and shaping, through Gio Ponti's action too, an image shared nowadays. The exhibition was hugely popular celebrated by the public and critics as expressing Italy's continuing "unity of the arts" and a combination of craft tradition and design innovation that offered an alternative modernity to America's all-out industrialization. Her Renaissance in Design Today embarked on its three-year tour of US museums, showing objects and environments designed in Italy's postwar reconstruction by leading architects including Carlo Mollino and Gio Ponti. The focus begins in 1950, when the American and the Italian curated and financed exhibition Italy at Work. The paper explores transatlantic dialogues in design during the postwar period and how America looked to Italy as alternative to a mainstream modernity defined by industrial consumer capitalism.
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