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OverviewDuring 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. Examining the political, social, and architectural history of the fascist period, Mussolini, Architect gives careful attention to the final years of fascist rule in order to demonstrate the extent to which Mussolini was intent on shaping Italy and its citizens through architectural projects. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paolo Nicoloso , Sylvia Notini , Giulio Einaudi Editore S.p.A.Publisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781442631045ISBN 10: 144263104 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 22 July 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""An essential, unique contribution to our understanding of fascist-era Italy's monumental architectural and urban works. Mussolini, Architect shows in detail how Mussolini personally manipulated architecture (and architects) for purposes of political persuasion, by accompanying architects on site visits, altering designs, critiquing plans, and positioning himself (not always incorrectly) as a design expert."" - Mia Fuller, Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""Nicoloso takes us on a journey through a few of the hallmarks of Mussolini's designs, perhaps reminding all of us that these buildings - appropriately cleansed of fascist attentions - are indeed something to be merited and something to admire. Spread out across the country as they are, beyond the willingness of their creator to imagine a future greater than the past, they speak to the past but address the future in ways that are still unfolding today. Nicoloso got it right in more ways than one."" - Diane Ghirardo, Professor of Architecture and Art History, University of Southern California ""Paolo Nicoloso's carefully researched and provocative book challenges simplistic equations between architecture and politics by interrogating the ways in which Mussolini sought to deploy the material, formal, cultural, and spatial logic of architecture in the making of a modern fascist Italy."" - Lucy M. Maulsby, Professor of Architectural History, Northeastern University" """An essential, unique contribution to our understanding of fascist-era Italy's monumental architectural and urban works. Mussolini, Architect shows in detail how Mussolini personally manipulated architecture (and architects) for purposes of political persuasion, by accompanying architects on site visits, altering designs, critiquing plans, and positioning himself (not always incorrectly) as a design expert."" --Mia Fuller, Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""Paolo Nicoloso's carefully researched and provocative book challenges simplistic equations between architecture and politics by interrogating the ways in which Mussolini sought to deploy the material, formal, cultural, and spatial logic of architecture in the making of a modern fascist Italy."" --Lucy M. Maulsby, Professor of Architectural History, Northeastern University ""Nicoloso takes us on a journey through a few of the hallmarks of Mussolini's designs, perhaps reminding all of us that these buildings - appropriately cleansed of fascist attentions - are indeed something to be merited and something to admire. Spread out across the country as they are, beyond the willingness of their creator to imagine a future greater than the past, they speak to the past but address the future in ways that are still unfolding today. Nicoloso got it right in more ways than one."" --Diane Ghirardo, Professor of Architecture and Art History, University of Southern California" An essential, unique contribution to our understanding of fascist-era Italy's monumental architectural and urban works. Mussolini, Architect shows in detail how Mussolini personally manipulated architecture (and architects) for purposes of political persuasion, by accompanying architects on site visits, altering designs, critiquing plans, and positioning himself (not always incorrectly) as a design expert. - Mia Fuller, Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley Nicoloso takes us on a journey through a few of the hallmarks of Mussolini's designs, perhaps reminding all of us that these buildings - appropriately cleansed of fascist attentions - are indeed something to be merited and something to admire. Spread out across the country as they are, beyond the willingness of their creator to imagine a future greater than the past, they speak to the past but address the future in ways that are still unfolding today. Nicoloso got it right in more ways than one. - Diane Ghirardo, Professor of Architecture and Art History, University of Southern California Paolo Nicoloso's carefully researched and provocative book challenges simplistic equations between architecture and politics by interrogating the ways in which Mussolini sought to deploy the material, formal, cultural, and spatial logic of architecture in the making of a modern fascist Italy. - Lucy M. Maulsby, Professor of Architectural History, Northeastern University An essential, unique contribution to our understanding of fascist-era Italy's monumental architectural and urban works. Mussolini, Architect shows in detail how Mussolini personally manipulated architecture (and architects) for purposes of political persuasion, by accompanying architects on site visits, altering designs, critiquing plans, and positioning himself (not always incorrectly) as a design expert. - Mia Fuller, Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley Nicoloso takes us on a journey through a few of the hallmarks of Mussolini's designs, perhaps reminding all of us that these buildings - appropriately cleansed of fascist attentions - are indeed something to be merited and something to admire. Spread out across the country as they are, beyond the willingness of their creator to imagine a future greater than the past, they speak to the past but address the future in ways that are still unfolding today. Nicoloso got it right in more ways than one. - Diane Ghirardo, Professor of Architecture and Art History, University of Southern California Paolo Nicoloso's carefully researched and provocative book challenges simplistic equations between architecture and politics by interrogating the ways in which Mussolini sought to deploy the material, formal, cultural, and spatial logic of architecture in the making of a modern fascist Italy. - Lucy M. Maulsby, Professor of Architectural History, Northeastern University Author InformationPaolo Nicoloso is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of Trieste. Sylvia Notini is a freelance translator and a professor of English Language, Literature, and Translation at the University of Bologna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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