{"id":3754,"date":"2010-12-11T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:56:27","slug":"on-december-10th-2010-esposizione-universale-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2010\/12\/11\/on-december-10th-2010-esposizione-universale-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"On December 11th, 2010, ESPOSIZIONE UNIVERSALE ROMA…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palazzo della Civilt\u00e0 Italiana (1938-1943), or the "Colosseo Quadrato" - flanked by equestrian statues (Publio Morbiducci and Alberto de Felci) representing the Greek heros Dioscuri in Carrara marble - and features six arched bays across (Benito) and nine levels (Mussolini) in possible reference to the name of the fascist Italian leader who commissioned it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…or EUR<\/a>, originally known as E42, the vast development south of Rome initiated by Benito Mussolini<\/a> in 1935 designed by a collaborative of Italian architects is where we went today in search of some adventures in fascist Roman architecture – which first fascinated me (to the horror of my Italian classmates and teaching assistants) while working on my thesis project for Aldo Rossi <\/a>at the IUAV<\/a> from 1990-91 – and today I was struck by how much the buildings reminded me of Aldo Rossi<\/a>‘s greatest & earliest works such as the Cataldo Cemetery in Modena<\/a> (1971) and the more relentlessly austere designs of Giorgio Grassi<\/a> – but today I was left feeling uncomfortable with our ability to have a purely aesthetic experience with architecture generated to promote brutal inhuman activity – but hey, we really love that Colosseum<\/a> built by slaves where hundreds of thousands died torturous deaths to the cheering of an entertained public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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