Architectures
Season 1 • Episode 34: The Reception and Congress Building in Rome • Watch with subtitles
Episode 34: The Reception and Congress Building in Rome
April 15, 2007 • 26 min
In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted the impossible combination of fascism with modernity. It reflects Libera's great ability to design ambiguously in a space, metaphysical language that sits on a knife-edge between modernism and neo-classicism.
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