Romagna Razionalista: Modern Architecture in Romagna
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…
Architecture
Rationalist Milan: Architecture from Bocconi to Courts
Milan is where Italian Rationalism met the real economy. Como gave the movement its purest manifestos, but Milan — industrial, ambitious, building fast…
Giuseppe Terragni in Como: The Casa del Fascio and City
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…
Liberty Italy vs French Art Nouveau: Stylistic Shifts
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 Liberty Grand Tour: Art Nouveau Route in Italy
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…
Palazzo Criscuoli in Barletta by Arturo Boccassini
Palazzo Criscuoli is an Art Deco palazzo in Barletta, Puglia, designed by engineer Arturo Boccassini and built between 1932 and 1934 for surgeon Dr. Criscuoli.
Florence Cathedral: Renaissance Architectural Masterpiece
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence’s iconic dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, represents one of the world’s greatest achievements in Renaissance architecture and engineering.
War Memorial in Cadeo by Pietro Berzolla (1924): Shrine
A war memorial designed by architect Pietro Berzolla and completed in 1924 in Cadeo, Piacenza. The monument commemorates those who fell in the First World War.
Torre dei Caduti in Bergamo: Marcello Piacentini
A 45-metre square tower erected in Bergamo’s lower city between 1922 and 1924 as a monument to the fallen of the First World War. Designed by architect Marcello Piacentini, it was inaugurated by Mussolini on 27 October 1924.