Stone and Language: Bolzano’s Fascist Architecture and the City That Refused to Forget
Bolzano is one of the few European cities where the architecture of totalitarianism is still the architecture of everyday life. The post office is…
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The Piave Line: Italy’s Last Stand and the Landscape of WWI Remembrance
The Piave river runs for 220 kilometres from the Carnic Alps to the Adriatic north of Venice. For roughly eight months — from October…
June 2026Two Cities Built From Nothing: Sabaudia, Latina, and the Rationalist Urban Experiment
On the morning of April 10, 1932, Benito Mussolini drove a shovel into the ground of the Agro Pontino — the ancient malarial swamp…
June 2026Seven Art Nouveau Buildings in Paris: Guimard’s Forgotten Revolution
Hector Guimard is Paris's most ubiquitous architect. Every person who has taken the Métro has passed through one of his entrances. But beyond the…
June 2026Seven Buildings: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow He Made
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 and died there in all but the most literal sense long before 1928. The buildings…
June 2026Eight Buildings Long: Riga’s Art Nouveau Quarter and the Architects Who Built It
Alberta iela is eight buildings long. You can walk from one end to the other in three minutes. In those three minutes you pass…
June 2026Naples between the Movements: Liberty, Rationalism and the Shadow of Empire (1909–1940)
Step into the atrium of Palazzo Mannajuolo on Via Filangieri and look up. An oval staircase spirals through six storeys of wrought-iron vines and…
June 2026Rome’s Other Monuments: Rationalist Architecture and the Fascist Era (1927–1954)
The entrance to the Foro Italico — once the Foro Mussolini — is marked by a monolith of Carrara marble seventeen metres tall. Carved…
June 2026Turin Between the Wars: Art Déco, Rationalism and Italy’s First Skyscraper
Turin built Italy’s first skyscraper, raced cars on a factory roof and modernised over vermouth and espresso. Walk the city’s lean inter-war architecture in…
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