Obelisco del Foro Italico — Carrara Marble Monolith
A 17.5-metre obelisk carved from a single block of white Carrara marble, erected on 29 October 1932 at the entrance of the Foro Mussolini sports complex. Its…
Foro Italico — Sports Citadel by Enrico Del Debbio
A sports citadel on the slopes of Monte Mario, built between 1928 and 1938 to a brief that fused imperial Roman scale with the abstract geometry of the…
Palazzo della Farnesina — Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A monumental travertine block on the right bank of the Tiber, designed in 1935 by Enrico Del Debbio, Arnaldo Foschini and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo as the…
Città Universitaria — Sapienza Rectorate by Marcello Piacentini
The Sapienza campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini between 1932 and 1935, is the largest single act of Italian inter-war architecture: a walled city of…
Palazzo dei Congressi — EUR by Adalberto Libera
Adalberto Libera’s winning entry for the 1937 EUR 42 competition is a 45-metre travertine cube wrapped around a single luminous void: an Italian rationalist…
Palazzo dell’Arte — Triennale di Milano by Giovanni Muzio
Giovanni Muzio designed Palazzo dell’Arte between 1931 and 1933 as the permanent seat of the Triennale, freshly relocated from the Villa Reale of Monza. The…
Milano Centrale Station — Art Deco Monumental Terminal by Ulisse Stacchini
Milano Centrale is the principal railway station of Milan and one of the largest terminals in Europe. The competition for its design was won in 1912 by the…
Arengario di Milano
Two symmetrical stone towers close the southern end of Piazza del Duomo. Designed in 1937 by Portaluppi, Muzio, Magistretti and Griffini, begun in 1939 and…
Sassi di Matera
Two cave-cut districts carved into a limestone ravine, continuously inhabited from the Paleolithic to 1952 — one of the oldest living settlements in the…
Lingotto FIAT — Test Track Factory by Giacomo Matté Trucco
Built between 1916 and 1923 by the engineer Giacomo Matté-Trucco for FIAT, the Lingotto is a five-storey reinforced-concrete car factory in southern Turin…