Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime.

• Author: Billiani, Francesca.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pennacchietti, Laura.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• The Book and Its Designs
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the Authors
• List of Figures
• 1: National Novel and New Architecture
• Chapter Outline
• 2: The Regime and the Creation of an 'Arte di Stato'
• Defining Fascist Art
• The Role of Artists and the Arts in the Public Sphere
• 3: Constructing the Novel
• Towards a Fascist Modernity
• From Fragmentation to Construction
• Translating the National Novel
• 4: Fascism and Architecture
• The Total Work of Art
• State Art: The Struggle for Supremacy
• Towards an Architectural Project
• The Languages of Architecture
• 5: 900 and Quadrante: Theorizing an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Model
• 900: Writing as Myth-Building
• Architecture as a Conceptual Model
• Quadrante: A 'United Aesthetic Front' for the Modernization of Fascist Culture
• Where Literature and Architecture Intersect
• 6: State Art, the Novel, and Architecture: Intersections
• Intersections
• The Principles
• The Debate
• Occidente (Rome, 1932-1935)
• Orpheus (Milan, 1932-1934)
• Il Saggiatore (Rome, 1930-1933)
• 7: Novels and Buildings
• Novels
• Gli indifferenti: The Reconstruction of the Novel
• Luce fredda: The Morality of the Novel
• The Romanzo Fiat and the Creation of Modern Myths: 522 and La strada e il volante
• The Symbolic Function of Architecture in Luce fredda, La strada e il volante, and Gli indifferenti
• Conclusion
• Architecture
• Florence Railway Station: Social Modernization and Architectural Modernity
• The Extension to the Olivetti Factory in Ivrea: The Morality of Industrial Architecture
• The Danteum: The Construction of Imperial Myth
• Conclusion
• 8: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.