In preparation for the 1944 Olympic Games, canceled due to W.W.II, Mussolini commissioned 60 eighteen-foot Herculean statues of white marble to surround his new

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of represent

Using Rome as a case study, this book examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity.

The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible t

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architect