{"product_id":"mussolini-architect-9781442631045","title":"Mussolini Architect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architecture to educate the masses, exploiting its symbolic prowess as a powerful tool for achieving political consensus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMussolini, Architect\u003c\/i\u003e examines Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943 and expands the traditional interpretations of fascism, advancing the claim that Mussolini devised and implemented architecture as a tool capable of determining public behaviour and influencing opinion. Paolo Nicoloso challenges the assertion that Mussolini was of minimal influence on Italian architecture and argues that in fact the fascist leader played a strong role in encouraging civic architectural development in order to reflect the totalitarian values of the period. Drawing on archival documents, Nicoloso lists the architects who gave Mussolini ideas and describes the times when the dictator himself sometimes picked up a pencil and suggested changes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Abbreviations   Introduction   Chapter One: Travelling to See the Buildings   The Myth of the Duce as an Inaugurator Building and Fighting Buildings Built to \"Endure\"  In the City Where Fascism Was Born  Architects in the Dictator’s Entourage    Chapter Two: Mussolini’s Rome   The Third Rome Demolishing “with No Holds Barred\" The Alert Eye  Visits to Building Sites in Rome  Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism Rome, \"Kingdom of the Unexpected\" Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action The North-South Imperial Axis   Chapter Three: At Palazzo Venezia   The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution Restoring Augustus  Doubts about Terragni The Rejection of Brasini’s Grandiose Architecture Mussolini’s Oversights  Architecture for a Politics of Domination Ponti’s Suggestions “Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s” Moretti instead of Piacentini?    Chapter Four: In the Architect’s Shoes    The Duce Approves  The Man with the Diktats With Pencil in Hand  Advising the Architects  Zigzagging Forward “I’m an Expert on Architecture”    Chapter Five: Piacentini and Mussolini   The Architect of the Littorian Order A Special Rapport Committed to the Party  Side by Side  In Praise of Organizational Perseverance   Chapter Six: Architecture Towards a Style   In Rome’s Città Universitaria  “Life Today” Requires a \"Unity of Direction\" in Architecture, Too  The E42 and the Matter of Style The Swing Towards Classicism At the E42 “History is Built”  Terragni’s Challenge, Pagano’s Silence, Bottai’s Dissent   Chapter Seven: The Totalitarian Acceleration and Architecture   Architecture for the Myths of the Totalitarian State Piacentini’s Architectural Unity For Imperial Rome  The 1941 \"Variante\" of Rome's Urban Development Plan  Hitler’s Plan for Imperial Berlin For Imperial Milan A National “Unity of Direction”  A Private Monopoly in a Totalitarian Regime   Conclusion   Index of Names and Subjects Index of Places\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408357466455,"sku":"9781442631045","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442631045.jpg?v=1730502576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mussolini-architect-9781442631045","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}