TY - JOUR AU - Maffioletti, Serena PY - 2013/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ernesto N. Rogers and the CIAM: Teaching for Democracy JF - Docomomo Journal JA - docomomo VL - IS - 49 SE - Essays DO - 10.52200/49.A.A0LJYG7X UR - https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/181 SP - 28-33 AB - <p>8 September 1943: The day the Italian army surrendered to the Allies is a - perhaps the most - decisive milestone in Ernesto N. Rogers’ life. From that transformative moment on, the young Italian architect built an extensive, in–depth international dialogue that led him to be recognized as a master in other, even quite distant, cultural contexts. It was in this concurrence of public and private life, which was practically a coincidence for him, that the career he had established as a partner in the BBPR and as a leading figure in the second generation of Italian rationalists would open to far broader horizons, enriched by his exile in Switzerland, where he, a Jew, fled just a few days after that terrible date.</p> ER -