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Courthouse, 1939, Bolzano, Italy.

Casa del Fascio, 1936, Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Palazzo della Farnesina (Italian Ministry of Foreing Affairs), 1935-1959, Rome, Italy.

Cinema Impero, 1937, Asmara, Eritrea.

Fiat Tagliero Building, 1938, Asmara, Eritrea.

Rationalist-Fascist architecture was an Italian architectural style developed during the Fascist regime and in particular starting from the late 1920s. It was promoted and practiced initially by the Gruppo 7 group, whose architects included Luigi Figini, Guido Frette, Sebastiano Larco, Gino Pollini, Carlo Enrico Rava, Giuseppe Terragni, Ubaldo Castagnola and Adalberto Libera. Two branches have been identified, a modernist branch with Giuseppe Terragni being the most prominent exponent, and a conservative branch of which Marcello Piacentini and the La Burbera group were most influential.

Architects

• Marcello Piacentini
• Giuseppe Terragni
• Luigi Moretti
• Angiolo Mazzoni
• Duilio Cambellotti
• Giuseppe Pagano
• Adalberto Libera

Works

• Sabaudia, Italy
• Latina, Italy
• Guidonia, Italy
• Carbonia, Italy
• Asmara, Eritrea
• Fertilia, Italy
• Arborea, Italy
• Rhodes, Greece
• Lakki, Greece

Modernist branch:

• 1928-29 Novocomum, Como, Giuseppe Terragni
• 1933-36 Casa del Fascio, Como, Giuseppe Terragni

Conservative branch:

• 1925-28 Monument to Victory, Bolzano, Marcello Piacentini
• Monumental Centre" for Rome, La Burbera Group
• Esposizione Universale Roma, Rome, Marcello Piacentini

See also

• Nazi architecture
• Soft Portuguese style

Sources

• Architecture - Rationalism
• http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-Fascist.htm
• Architecture of dictatorships