Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Esposizione Universale of Rome (EUR) [site and area]

Preferred Title: 
Esposizione Universale of Rome (EUR) [site and area]
Image View: 
Via Cristoforo Colombo, looking east
Creator: 
Giuseppe Pagano (Italian architect, 1896-1945); Marcello Piacentini (Italian architect, 1881-1960)
Location: 
site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Date: 
1938-1960 (inclusive)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Novecento italiano; rationalism (architecture)
Work Type 1: 
mixed-use development
Work Type 2: 
exhibition building
Work Type 3: 
sports complex
Classification: 
architecture
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; City planning; Esposizione universale di Roma (1942 : Rome, Italy); Fascism; ideal cities; boulevard
Description: 
In his role as Mussolini's architectural coordinator Piacentini also assumed responsibility in 1936 for the site of the Esposizione Universale of Rome (EUR), to be inaugurated in 1942. From its origins as a simple exhibition site the EUR was increasingly impelled by Piacentini into becoming a new monumental quarter of Rome. Consequently monumentality and permanence became the criteria for the competition contributions by the various artists and architects, who included Rationalists such as Pagano, Giuseppe Terragni and Adalberto Libera. Indeed they were required to forge a 'Fascist' style that was simultaneously grandiose, classical, modern and functional. Piacentini oversaw the whole programme, intervening in an increasingly dominant manner, and this led to the end of his friendship with Pagano and to his imposition of penalties on the architects responsible for the individual buildings. His pursuit of the ideal of classicism was based on the view that the exhibition site was to be a permanent symbol of the
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Two
Identifier: 
1A3-FA-EUR-5-A3
Rights: 
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