Artefacts

Casa del Fascio

Artefact Type:

building

Description:
White reinforced-concrete building designed as a perfect prism, with a large use of glass, meant to symbolize the transparency of the Fascist regime, of which it was an administrative centre.

Author:
> Giuseppe Terragni
Original Location:
> Piazza Impero
Original Location:
> Como
Current Location:
> Piazza del Popolo
Style:
> Rationalist
Project Start Date:
1928
Project End Date:
1932
Building Phase Start Date:
1933
Building Phase End Date:
1936

Tags: Rationalist architecture Totalitarianism Consensus Internationalism Public or civic sphere Architectural principle Totalitarian consent Public spectacle Visibility

Themes:

Italian Rationalism