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Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

Nicoloso, Paolo
Notini, Sylvia

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Italian Studies

General World HistoryArchitecture HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 144263104X
ISBN13: 9781442631045
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 22 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

During 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.


Mussolini, Architect 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.

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