Caricature architettoniche. Satira e critica del progetto moderno

Ever since the mid-19th century, satirical cartoonists have produced innumerable caricatures, vignettes, humorous illustrations and animated cartoons that show the profound impact of architecture on contemporary society. The great urban transformations (from the Paris of Baron Haussmann to the skyscrapers of Manhattan), the great public architecture (from the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao), the revolution in models of housing and the personalities of architects (from Le Corbusier to Renzo Piano) have inspired the drawings of numerous artists, capable of epitomising the most representative characters of these phenomena with a few lines. They include Honoré Daumier, George Cruikshank, Thomas Theodor Heine, William Heath Robinson, Louis Hellman, Alan Dunn, Mino Maccari, Leo Longanesi, Saul Steinberg, George Molnar and many others.