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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 […]

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A thematic chain, not a day trip: five surviving case del fascio across Italy and Albania, each with a different afterlife. Terragni’s glass-and-marble paradigm in Como, De Giorgio’s rural series at Rubano, the largest small-town headquarters at Predappio, the Bolzano block with its Hannah Arendt counter-monument, and Bosio’s export at the head of Tirana’s boulevard. Read the full story in the dedicated article One Building Type, Five Fates: The Case del Fascio from Como to Tirana, by Stefano Vigolo.

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Casa del Fascio

Casa del Fascio

The Casa del Fascio in Como, designed by Giuseppe Terragni between 1932 and 1936, is the single most studied building of Italian Rationalism. A perfect…

Dwell ~30min

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Casa del Fascio di Predappio

Casa del Fascio di Predappio

The former Casa del Fascio in Predappio is the largest party headquarters built in any small Italian town during the Fascist regime. Inaugurated in 1937 at…

Dwell ~20min

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Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana

Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana

The monumental square Gherardo Bosio built in 1939-41 at the head of Tirana's boulevard as Piazza del Littorio: its Casa del Fascio is today the Polytechnic University, its companions the Rectorate and the Academy of Arts — the civic heart of the Albanian capital on an Italian plan.

Dwell ~30min

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