David Escudero is an architect and associate professor in architecture at the Department of Architectural Composition of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM-UPM), and a member of the UPM Cultural Landscape Research Group (GIPC). His research topics focus on the intersections between theory of architecture, cinema, and representation. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2022), and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (2017), at the gta Institute of the ETH Zürich (2017) and at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome (2018). He was awarded a Graham Foundation grant for his book Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy. He has authored articles in Journal of Architecture (RIBA), Architectural Theory Review, and OASE Journal for Architecture, among others.

FOREWORD by Andrew Leach ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I. TOWARDS A CONCEPT: NEOREALIST ARCHITECTURE Chapter 1. A Climate Beyond Filmmaking Chapter 2. Political Celebration, Formal Failure PART II. A NEOREALIST MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE Chapter 3. The INA-Casa Program as a Vehicle for Neorealism Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Mood, Mindset... Translated Into Bricks PART III. NEOREALIST IMAGES OF ARCHITECTURE Chapter 5. Architecture Within the Imagery of Neorealism Chapter 6. Figuranti of a Shared Aesthetic EPILOGUE. THE SCENE OF HUMAN'S LIFE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX