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The E.U.R. Project
was initiated in the 1920's - financed and inspired by
the fascist Mussolini Government of the period the project
was never completed - the second world war and summary
execution of Mussolini put a stop to his plans. Nevertheless,
E.U.R. remains one of the most fascinating areas of Rome
and its' surreal architecture has inspired many modern
artists including Di Chirico many of whose paintings were
inspired by this surreal area of Rome. This particular
building the Palazzo della Civilita or il Colosseo Quadrato
(square collosseum) as it is popularly known was the work
of Guerrini. Commissioned and completed in the early thirties
The architectural style is technically known as "bombastic
modernism" but in everyday language it is fascist...
Indeed EU.R. is full of fascist
inspired architecture with the Palazzo della Civilita
being one of the f most famous buildings in E.U.R and
Rome. Recently il Colosseo Quadrato was used by a major
sports company for a TV commercial which outraged Rome's
cultural minister and benefactor of the arts. Now unused
the building is a relic to a less than illustrious past
and it is almost impossible to find any books on fascist
architecture from this period.
Did
you know? Like many of the government
buildings in E.U.R. it was never used and lies empty to
this date.
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