Mussolini, Architect

Mussolini, Architect

Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

Notini, Sylvia; Nicoloso, Paolo

University of Toronto Press

07/2022

352

Dura

Inglês

9781442631045

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Travelling to See the Buildings

The Myth of the Duce as an Inaugurator
Building and Fighting
Buildings Built to "Endure"
In the City Where Fascism Was Born
Architects in the Dictator's Entourage

Chapter Two: Mussolini's Rome

The Third Rome
Demolishing "with No Holds Barred"
The Alert Eye
Visits to Building Sites in Rome
Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism
Rome, "Kingdom of the Unexpected"
Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action
The North-South Imperial Axis

Chapter Three: At Palazzo Venezia

The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
Restoring Augustus
Doubts about Terragni
The Rejection of Brasini's Grandiose Architecture
Mussolini's Oversights
Architecture for a Politics of Domination
Ponti's Suggestions
"Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar's"
Moretti instead of Piacentini?

Chapter Four: In the Architect's Shoes

The Duce Approves
The Man with the Diktats
With Pencil in Hand
Advising the Architects
Zigzagging Forward
"I'm an Expert on Architecture"

Chapter Five: Piacentini and Mussolini

The Architect of the Littorian Order
A Special Rapport
Committed to the Party
Side by Side
In Praise of Organizational Perseverance

Chapter Six: Architecture Towards a Style

In Rome's Citta Universitaria
"Life Today" Requires a "Unity of Direction" in Architecture, Too
The E42 and the Matter of Style
The Swing Towards Classicism
At the E42 "History is Built"
Terragni's Challenge, Pagano's Silence, Bottai's Dissent

Chapter Seven: The Totalitarian Acceleration and Architecture

Architecture for the Myths of the Totalitarian State
Piacentini's Architectural Unity
For Imperial Rome
The 1941 "Variante" of Rome's Urban Development Plan
Hitler's Plan for Imperial Berlin
For Imperial Milan
A National "Unity of Direction"
A Private Monopoly in a Totalitarian Regime

Conclusion

Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Places
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Italian fascism; Italy; history of architecture; Benito Mussolini; dictatorship; Rome; Roman architecture; classical architecture; totalitarianism; Hitler; Terragni; Pagano; Piacentini; Citta Universitaria; E42