Mussolini, Architect : : Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy / / Paolo Nicoloso.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
• VerfasserIn: Nicoloso, Paolo,
• MitwirkendeR: Notini, Sylvia,; Sabatino, Michelangelo,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 80 b&w illustrations

During the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architecture to educate the masses, exploiting the symbolic prowess of architecture as a powerful tool for achieving political consensus. Mussolini, Architect examines Mussolini in Italy from...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Travelling to See the Buildings
• 1 The Myth of the Duce as Inaugurator
• 2 Building and Fighting
• 3 Buildings Built to “Endure”
• 4 In the City Where Fascism Was Born
• 5 Architects in the Dictator’s Entourage
• 2 Mussolini’s Rome
• 1 The Third Rome
• 2 Demolishing “with No Holds Barred”
• 3 The Keen Eye
• 4 Visits to Building Sites in Rome
• 5 Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism
• 6 Rome, “Kingdom of the Unexpected”
• 7 Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action
• 8 The North-South Imperial Axis
• 3 At Palazzo Venezia
• 1 The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
• 2 Restoring Augustus
• 3 Doubts about Terragni
• 4 The Rejection of Brasini’s Grandiose Architecture
• 5 Mussolini’s Oversights
• 6 Architecture for a Politics of Domination
• 7 Ponti’s Suggestions
• 8 “Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s”
• 9 Moretti Instead of Piacentini?
• 4 In the Architect’s Shoes
• 1 The Duce Approves
• 2 The Man with the Diktats
• 3 With Pencil in Hand
• 4 Advising the Architects
• 5 Zigzagging Forward
• 6 “I’m an Expert on Architecture”
• 5 Piacentini and Mussolini
• 1 The Architect of the Littorian Order
• 2 A Special Rapport
• 3 Committed to the Party
• 4 Side by Side
• 5 In Praise of Organizational Perseverance
• 6 Architecture towards a Style
• 1 In Rome’s Città Universitaria
• 2 “Life Today” Requires a “Unity of Direction” in Architecture Too
• 3 The E42 and the Matter of Style
• 4 The Swing towards Classicism
• 5 At the E42 “History Is Built”
• 6 Terragni’s Challenge, Pagano’s Silence, Bottai’s Dissent
• 7 The Totalitarian Acceleration and Architecture
• 1 Architecture for the Myths of the Totalitarian State
• 2 Piacentini’s Architectural Unity
• 3 For Imperial Rome
• 4 The 1941 “Variante” of Rome’s Urban Development Plan
• 5 Hitler’s Plan for Imperial Berlin
• 6 For Imperial Milan
• 7 A National “Unity of Direction”
• 8 A Private Monopoly in a Totalitarian Regime
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index of Names and Subjects
• Index of Places