The White City - Mussolini and De Chirico in the EUR (Rome)

In his metaphysical paintings, Giorgio De Chirico foresaw the geometric, grand yet classical aura that fascist rationalism would later embody, and painted it on canvases. Later, this subtle layer of introspective stupor would show in Michelangelo Antonioni's films. If EUR's Colosseo Quadrato seems to be popped out of a De Chirico painting, that's not the only example of fascist rationalism winking at metaphysics. Whole towns in the Agro Pontino area were built that way.
Mission by Antonio Negrini, Marcello Parlati
Look at this mission also on Check-in Architecture website http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/mission/168, on Picasa Web Album http://picasaweb.google.com/checkinarchitecture/TheWhiteCityMussoliniAndDeChi... or on Google Earth http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/index/earth/mission/168.kml

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[eugeniofurio]

amazing some of these squares and buildings look like they were taken straight out of a de chirico painting

[eugeniofurio]

amazing some of these squares and buildings look like they were taken straight out of a de chirico painting

[Tadeusz598]

Thanks. Most interesting.

[architectureordie]

Che regia sperimentale!

[milionis]

His Father is gone [train on the move] the two figures that chat with long shadows are possible his brother and himself, the reclined woman their mother, the young girl that plays a childhood first love, the statue of a man a tribute to his father the buildings are his memories from Volos the clock of lost memories. Female torso, lust for a mature woman who loved bananas as they were rare and exotic in Volos what gets me the most is that he never painted allot of trees yet filled the sky green

[johndega]

If there waas a point I missed it.