Terragni Rationalism RoadBook — Four Buildings from Como to Milan (1928–1936)
Four buildings by Giuseppe Terragni, from Como to Milan: the Novocomum apartment block and the Casa del Fascio in Como, […]
Photographer & Researcher
Stefano Vigolo
Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 125 articles · 81 heritage places · 12 itineraries · 18 photographs
2,828 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- Stazione di servizio A.G.I.P. (u00a0 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli ) oggi Stazione di servizio Tamoil - Asmara , Eritrea
- La torre e il treno - Giorgio De Chirico - 1934 ( Stefano Vigolo )
- Villino oggi Sede dell' Ambasciata Etiope in Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Pietro Del Fabro - 1938
- Fontana di Ghezzabanda oggi Fontana Mai Jah Jah - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Lorenzo Azzolini - 1939
- Palazzo Manifatturau00a0Tabacchi oggi Palazzo British e American Tobacco Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea. 1938
- Edificio abitazione , Quartiere Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea
- Particolare Bar all'interno del Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Fabbrica Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea - 1937
- Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Edificio abitazione e negozi - Asmara , Eritrea
- Caserma della M.V.S.N ( Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale ) oggi Palazzo della Banca d'Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea
- Cinema Augustus oggi Cinema Capitol - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. R. Saviele - 1938
A Stadium, an Aqueduct and a New Town: A Ferrara Rationalism RoadBook (1928–1939)
Ferrara modernised on its own terms between the wars. Alongside the old city, a new westward quarter — the Addizione
Ferrara Rationalism RoadBook — Four Stops from Savonuzzi’s Addizione to Rossoni’s Tresigallo (1928–1939)
Four stops through interwar Ferrara and its plain: the Stadio Paolo Mazza, the monumental Acquedotto on Piazza XXIV Maggio and
One Building Type, Five Fates: The Case del Fascio from Como to Tirana
The casa del fascio was the local headquarters of the Fascist party, and after 1945 the whole network lost its purpose overnight. Five survivors — Como, Rubano, Predappio, Bolzano, Tirana — show what the type was and what the republic did with it.
Case del Fascio — a Thematic Route in Five Buildings, from Como to Tirana
A thematic chain, not a day trip: five surviving case del fascio across Italy and Albania, each with a different
Two Post Offices and a Thirty-Metre Tower: A Forlì–Predappio Rationalism RoadBook (1925–1939)
Forlì was the regime’s showcase city; Predappio, a planned model town. Five stops link them: Bazzani’s post office, Valle’s Casa del Balilla and cadet academy, and the post office and abandoned Casa del Fascio of Predappio Nuova. A driving route with map and GPX.
Forlì–Predappio Rationalism RoadBook — Five Stops in the Regime’s Showcase (1925–1939)
Five stops across Forlì and Predappio, the two Romagna towns the regime rebuilt as its showcase: Bazzani’s post office on
Talc, Bricks and a Stone Slogan: A Padua Rationalism RoadBook (1936–1952)
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s shuttered Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the Kofler works, the Sacra Famiglia church and the stone slogan of Rubano. A driving route with map and GPX links them all.
Padua Rationalism RoadBook — Five Stops from Ponti’s Liviano to Rubano (1936–1952)
Five stops through interwar and post-war Padua: De Giorgio’s Cinema Altino, Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Liviano, the streamline corner of the
EUR, 1937–1954: Walking the Quarter of the Exposition That Never Opened
Three buildings tell the story of E42, the Rome universal exposition cancelled by the war: Minnucci’s Palazzo degli Uffici, the Colosseo Quadrato and Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi. A walking route with map and GPX links them all.