Title: 'Il Fascismo È Una Casa Di Vetro': Giuseppe Terragni and the Politics of Space in Fascist Italy
Abstract:AbstractThis article examines the conceptualization of space in the Casa del Fascio di Como, designed by the rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni and inaugurated in 1936. It explores Terragni's rec...AbstractThis article examines the conceptualization of space in the Casa del Fascio di Como, designed by the rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni and inaugurated in 1936. It explores Terragni's reconfiguration of the notion of monumental space as a space in which the individual was forged daily as a national subject and as part of the phenomenon of the Fascist collectivity. In the architect's conception this was achieved through a visual and sensory spatial experience which united notions of the house, the temple and the monument. This effect was to be obtained through the creation of a new sense of the classical that encompassed signifiers of tradition and modernity and made history present through its spatial symbolic visualization. The article focuses on the textual explanation of the building in the magazine Quadrante and draws out the connection between its specific construction of space and debates about public and private in Fascist Italy.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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