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…
Colonie Marine: Italian Rationalism on the Adriatic Shore
Along the Adriatic south of Rimini stands one of the most peculiar building types Italian Rationalism ever produced: the colonia marina, the monumental…
Romagna Razionalista: Mussolini’s Home Ground in White Plaster
Emilia-Romagna holds the strangest chapter of the Rationalist story. This was Mussolini’s home ground — he was born here, in a hillside village above Forlì…
Rationalist Milan: From the Bocconi to the Courthouse
Milan is where Italian Rationalism met the real economy. Como gave the movement its purest manifestos, but Milan — industrial, ambitious, building fast…
Terragni in Como: The City That Built Italian Rationalism
Giuseppe Terragni lived for thirty-nine years and worked for barely fifteen of them. Almost everything that matters in his career happened in a single…
Bastione di Saint Remy, Cagliari
A monumental belvedere and ceremonial staircase built over the Spanish bastions of Cagliari’s medieval Castello — a piece of late-nineteenth-century civic…
Basilica di Santa Croce, Lecce
The most exuberant single monument of the Barocco leccese, built over 150 years — a vertical anthology of carved pietra leccese supported by thirteen putti…