Curated Itinerary
EUR (E42) Rationalist Walk — Three Buildings of the Exposition Quarter
Three stops through the monumental core of EUR, the Rome quarter built for the universal exposition of 1942 that the […]
Three stops through the monumental core of EUR, the Rome quarter built for the universal exposition of 1942 that the war cancelled: from the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana to Minnucci’s Palazzo degli Uffici and Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi. Read the full story in the dedicated article EUR, 1937–1954: Walking the Quarter of the Exposition That Never Opened, by Stefano Vigolo.
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Palazzo della Civilta Italiana
Italian Rationalism at its most theatrical scale: a travertine cube of 216 arches in Rome EUR, finished 1943 for an exposition that never opened.
Palazzo degli Uffici (EUR) — Gaetano Minnucci and the First Building of the E42 Quarter
The first permanent building of the EUR quarter, raised in under two years by Gaetano Minnucci as the working headquarters for the exhibition…
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…
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