Maristella Casciato is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Bologna - School of Architecture 'Aldo Rossi' in Cesena, and Chair of DOCOMOMO International. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Visiting Professorship at the Institut national d'histoire d'art in Paris. She has been Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, at the MIT Department of Architecture, and at Cornell University's Rome Program. She has published widely in architectural journals and has contributed essays to numerous publications on architectural subjects. Fulvio Irace is Professor of History of Architecture at Milan Polytechnic, he is principally concerned with historiographic issues in Italian architecture, to which he has devoted numerous exhibitions (Anni Trenta, 1982; Carlo Mollino, 1989; Milano Moderna, 1990; Gio Ponti, 1992, etc.) and books (Gio Ponti: la casa all italiana, 1988; Giovanni Muzio, 1989; Renzo Piano: le città visibili, 2007) which have opened up new interpretations of the relationship between international culture and local cultures in the development of the idea of modernity.