Architecture

Milan holds the densest concentration of Italian Liberty (Art Nouveau) architecture in the country, clustered in the Porta Venezia quarter. A building-by-building walking guide.

Turin hosted the 1902 exhibition that defined Liberty as Italy’s Art Nouveau, and its streets still hold the country’s most intact Liberty fabric. A guide to the city and its master architect.

Italian Liberty is Italy’s Art Nouveau: floral ornament, polychrome ceramic, wrought iron, 1890-1915. The architects, the cities, and where to see it.

Along the Adriatic south of Rimini stands one of the most peculiar building types Italian Rationalism ever produced: the colonia marina, the monumental…

Emilia-Romagna holds the strangest chapter of the Rationalist story. This was Mussolini’s home ground — he was born here, in a hillside village above Forlì…

Milan is where Italian Rationalism met the real economy. Como gave the movement its purest manifestos, but Milan — industrial, ambitious, building fast…

Giuseppe Terragni lived for thirty-nine years and worked for barely fifteen of them. Almost everything that matters in his career happened in a single…

Most travellers conflate them. The label “Art Nouveau” floats over a Paris Métro entrance and a Turin villa as if both were the same gesture in the same…

The northern leg of a Liberty-era Grand Tour opens in Turin. The Egyptian Museum holds one of the worlds foremost collections outside Cairo, while the Sacra…