Pontinia (1935): Architecture of the Pontine New Town
Between celebrated Latina and celebrated Sabaudia sits the new town nobody writes about. Pontinia, third of the five, is rural rationalism at its most…
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Sabaudia (1934): Rationalist Architecture on the Coast
Planned in 1933 by Cancellotti, Montuori, Piccinato and Scalpelli and built in barely a year, Sabaudia is the masterwork of Italian rationalist urbanism. Two…
July 2026Latina (Littoria, 1932): The First Pontine New Town
Founded as Littoria in 1932 on the drained Pontine Marshes, Latina still reads exactly as Oriolo Frezzotti drew it. A five-stop walk through the…
July 2026Italian Dodecanese: Architecture of Rhodes and Leros
From Di Fausto's Mediterranean eclecticism on Rhodes — the Grande Albergo delle Rose, the Foro Italico, Lombardi's Kallithea spa — to the complete rationalist…
July 2026Asmara Modernist Architecture: Italian Eritrea Heritage
Italy's first colony holds its most recognised built record: Asmara, UNESCO-listed in 2017 as "A Modernist African City", with the Fiat Tagliero and Cinema…
July 2026Italian Libya: Architecture and Colonial Urbanism
Tripoli's colonial architecture and Florestano Di Fausto, the 1927 International Fair, the Mellaha Grand Prix, the 1,822-km Litoranea with its 65 roadhouses, the demolished…
July 2026Fascist-Era Architecture in Italy: Styles and Debate
"Fascist architecture" is a convenient but imprecise label: beneath it coexist different and partly opposed currents — rationalism, the Novecento movement, monumentalism — each…
July 2026Preserving Difficult Heritage: Interwar Architecture
Ten years before the Bolzano courthouse collapse, Corriere della Sera had already settled the question: rationalist buildings of the Ventennio are historical sources to…
July 2026Bolzano Courthouse: The Interwar Rationalist Palace
Shortly before 6:00 on 16 July 2026 the central section of the Bolzano courthouse collapsed during renovation works: a quarter of the rationalist palace…
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