Fascist architecture

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Rationalist-Fascist architecture was an Italian architectural style of the late 1920's promoted and practiced initially by the Gruppo 7 group, whose architects included Luigi Figini, Guido Frette, Sebastiano Larco, Gino Pollini, Carlo Enrico Rava, Giuseppe Terragni, Ubaldo Castagnola and Adalberto Libera. Two branches have been identified, a modernist branch with Giuseppe Terragni being the most prominent exponent, and a conservative branch of which Marcello Piacentini and the La Burbera group were most influential.

[edit] Architects

• Marcello Piacentini
• Giuseppe Terragni
• Luigi Moretti
• Angiolo Mazzoni
• Duilio Cambellotti
• Giuseppe Pagano
• Adalberto Libera

[edit] Works

• Sabaudia, Italy
• Latina, Italy
• Carbonia, Italy
• Asmara, Eritrea
• Rhodes, Greece
• Lakki, Greece

Modernist branch:

• 1928-29 Novocomum, Como, Giuseppe Terragani
• 1933-36 Casa del Fascio, Como, Giuseppe Terragani

Conservative branch:

• 1925-28 Monument to Victory, Bolzano, Marcello Piacentini
• Monumental Centre" for Rome, La Burbera Group,

[edit] Sources

• Architecture - Rationalism
• http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-Fascist.htm
• Architecture of dictatorships