Format:
1 online resource (348 pages)
ISBN:
9781442631007
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.
Content:
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- 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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442631045
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442631045
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945
;
Italien
;
Faschismus
;
Architektur
;
Propaganda
;
History.
