Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. List of Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Travelling to See the Buildings
9. 1 The Myth of the Duce as Inaugurator 17
10. 2 Building and Fighting 20
11. 3 Buildings Built to “Endure” 25
12. 4 In the City Where Fascism Was Born 33
13. 5 Architects in the Dictator’s Entourage 38
14. 2 Mussolini’s Rome
15. 1 The Third Rome 43
16. 2 Demolishing “with No Holds Barred” 49
17. 3 The Keen Eye 51
18. 4 Visits to Building Sites in Rome 55
19. 5 Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism 60
20. 6 Rome, “Kingdom of the Unexpected” 66
21. 7 Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action 72
22. 8 The North-South Imperial Axis 78
23. 3 At Palazzo Venezia
24. 1 The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution 83
25. 2 Restoring Augustus 87
26. 3 Doubts about Terragni 92
27. 4 The Rejection of Brasini’s Grandiose Architecture 96
28. 5 Mussolini’s Oversights 100
29. 6 Architecture for a Politics of Domination 104
30. 7 Ponti’s Suggestions 108
31. 8 “Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s” 112
32. 9 Moretti Instead of Piacentini? 115
33. 4 In the Architect’s Shoes
34. 1 The Duce Approves 121
35. 2 The Man with the Diktats 123
36. 3 With Pencil in Hand 127
37. 4 Advising the Architects 135
38. 5 Zigzagging Forward 142
39. 6 “I’m an Expert on Architecture” 146
40. 5 Piacentini and Mussolini
41. 1 The Architect of the Littorian Order 153
42. 2 A Special Rapport 158
43. 3 Committed to the Party 160
44. 4 Side by Side 164
45. 5 In Praise of Organizational Perseverance 169
46. 6 Architecture towards a Style
47. 1 In Rome’s Città Universitaria 174
48. 2 “Life Today” Requires a “Unity of Direction” in Architecture Too 177
49. 3 The E42 and the Matter of Style 180
50. 4 The Swing towards Classicism 184
51. 5 At the E42 “History Is Built” 188
52. 6 Terragni’s Challenge, Pagano’s Silence, Bottai’s Dissent 193
53. 7 The Totalitarian Acceleration and Architecture
54. 1 Architecture for the Myths of the Totalitarian State 199
55. 2 Piacentini’s Architectural Unity 202
56. 3 For Imperial Rome 204
57. 4 The 1941 “Variante” of Rome’s Urban Development Plan 211
58. 5 Hitler’s Plan for Imperial Berlin 216
59. 6 For Imperial Milan 221
60. 7 A National “Unity of Direction” 224
61. 8 A Private Monopoly in a Totalitarian Regime 231
62. Epilogue 233
63. Notes 245
64. Index of Names and Subjects 301
65. Index of Places 321