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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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | English-language edition. |
| Series: | Toronto Italian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
