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 – Virtual Tour 360°
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…