As for a book that has acted as a companion text for me, one to which I keep returning, it is an Italian one: Maria Luisa Scalvini, L’immagine storiografica dell’architettura contemporanea, da Platz a Giedion, Officina Edizioni, Rome, 1984. It was the first book that made me truly understand what a historiographic construction is, revealing the subjectivity inherent in this process. Scalvini’s sharp analytical and documentary tools enter in the fissures, interstices, and fractures of historiography, deconstructing what had often been perceived as the monolithic narrative of the Modern Movement. The thesis of compactness, linearity, and continuity—the idea of the fundamental historical unity of a cycle—is what Scalvini deconstructs in the book.