Architecture as propaganda in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes : history and heritage

351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Introduction
  • National tradition! What national tradition? : Historiographical debates on fascism in Italy and Germany from 1945 to the post-Cold War period
  • Giuseppe Pagano and Casabella : in defence of modern Italian architecture
  • Marcello Piacentini : a case of controversial heritage
  • The fascist memory of the war and its legacy : two cases : Thee Redipuglia War Memorial and the Ara Pacis of Medea
  • Fascism/Urbanism : Town, New-Town, Non-Town
  • The Italian, Soviet Union and German pavilions in International Exhibitions 1925-1939
  • Berlin Mitte : the product of two dictatorships
  • The reconstruction of Spain in the post-war period : the Dirección General de Regiones Devastadas
  • Slovenia in a Yugoslavian context – practising architecture on the third side of the Cold War.
  • The anxieties of dissonant heritage : ATRIUM and the architectural legacy of regimes in local and European perspectives
  • Endorsement effects and warning potentials : Architecture from totalitarian eras as heritage
  • Hidden in plain sight : The impact of Rome's fascist past on contemporary heritage management
  • The past in the present – difficult heritage in the contemporary context
  • The Arc of Memory and the Arc of Justice : How memorials to European fascism matter
  • Notes on Contributors
• Information

  ISBN: 9788859618355

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  DISCIPLINES

  • Architecture
  • Systems of governments and states
  • Architecture

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Architecture -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
  • Architecture and state -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
  • City planning -- Europe -- History -- Congresses