Mussolini, Architect : propaganda and urban landscape in fascist Italy = Mussolini architetto : propaganda e paesaggio urbano nell'Italia fascista /

"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 Ital...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nicoloso, Paolo, 1957- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Notini, S. (Sylvia) (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Edición:English-language edition.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
Temas:
Mussolini, Benito, > 1883-1945.
Mussolini, Benito, > 1883-1945
1900-1999
Fascism and architecture > Italy.
Fascist propaganda > Italy.
Architecture > Italy > History > 20th century.
Fascism > Italy > History.
Fascisme et architecture > Italie.
Propagande fasciste > Italie.
Architecture > Italie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Fascisme > Italie > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
Architecture
Cultural policy
Fascism
Fascism and architecture
Fascist propaganda
Italy > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Italy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Michaelangelo Sabatino
  • Introduction
  • Travelling to see the buildings. The myth of the Duce as inaugurator ; Building and fighting ; Buildings built to "endure" ; In the city where fascism was born ; Architects in the dictator's entourage
  • Mussolini's Rome. The third Rome ; Demolishing "with no holds barred" ; The keen 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
  • 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?
  • 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"
  • Piacentini and Mussolini. The architect of the Littorian Order ; A special rapport ; Committed to the party ; Side by side ; In praise of organizational perseverance
  • Architecture towards a style. In Rome's Città 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
  • 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
  • Epilogue.

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