essay
The 'archvilla': an Italian Canadian architectural archetype
Studies in Italian American folklore • Logan, Utah • Published In 1993 • Pages: 53-105
By: Del Giudice, Luisa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper is a study of the Italian Canadian 'archvilla', an architectual style involving the wide spread use of the arch in house and other building construction. In this article Del Giudice attempts to '…(1) place in relief the centrality of the home and family foyer in the Italian worldview; (2) examine briefly the immigrant's domestic environment, his interiorized 'dreamscapes', and how he occupies and animates his built habitat; and (3) explore the sources and meaning of the arch as the archetypal architectual expression of Italian ethnicity' (p. 53). This document also contains information on the gardens and grounds surrounding the home, the Italian's ancestral relationship to the land, the CANTINE or storage room within the house for food and wine, the 'archvilla' and its relationshp to the deeply embedded myth of Rome, and the nationalistic ideologies and styles exploited by Fascism in Italy in architectual design. This study has resulted from a synthesis of the author's personal experience and memory and corroborated through field work and archival research.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Architecture
- Dwellings
- Status, role, and prestige
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Folklorist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Luisa Del Giudice
- Includes bibliographical references (p.102-105)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93021459
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada