The Palazzina Azzurra is a Rationalist building completed in 1934 in San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno. Designed by engineer Luigi Onorati, it served as a leisure and social venue for the coastal town.
Between the wars, Italian architects including Giuseppe Terragni and Marcello Piacentini developed rationalist design emphasizing simple, functional forms. The movement, organized through the Group 7 and later MIAR, synthesized international modernism with classical principles.
Tribute to Eugene Grasset FROM 11 MAY TO 21 JULY 2019 The desire is to want to give the city of Pordenone, during the exhibition period, an immersion in a…
Italian Rationalism is the country’s great modern paradox. In barely fifteen years between the wars, a generation of young architects gave Italy some of the…
A Catholic church in Rome’s Trionfale quarter, designed by architect Tullio Rossi and engineer Franco Formari and completed in 1941. The building features a Neo-Renaissance facade and houses frescoes and artworks from its predecessor.
A Roman office building completed in 1928 for the Tirrena Telephone Company, designed by architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo. The structure features wrought-iron detailing, cast-iron balconies, and sculptural ornamentation.
A five-storey luxury apartment building designed by architect Giuseppe De Finetti and completed in 1925 in Milan. The design preserves a historic garden while employing simplified classical elements.
Miramare Castle in Friuli Venezia Giulia was built by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg for his wife Carlotta of Belgium. The castle preserves original furnishings and overlooks the Gulf of Trieste.
Rocca Calascio, a white-stone medieval castle at 1,460 meters in L’Aquila province, stands as one of Italy’s highest fortified structures. Its dramatic mountain setting has attracted filmmakers including those behind Lady Hawke, The Name of the Rose, and The American.
