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Casa del Fascio

Artefact Type:

building

Description:

White reinforced-concrete building designed as a perfect prism, with a large use of glass, meant to symbolize the transparency of the Fascist regime, of which it was an administrative centre.

Original Location:

Piazza Impero, Como

Current Location:

Piazza del Popolo, Como

Style(s):

Rationalist

Notes:

Inside, artworks by Mario Radice and Manlio Rho (destroyed).

Author(s):

Giuseppe Terragni

Project Start Date :

1928

Project End Date :

1932

Building Phase Start Date :

1933

Building Phase End Date :

1936

Theme(s) :

Italian Rationalism