Del Debbio's hidden masterpiece - out-buildings at Foro Mussolini

A few years after restoration, still in need of TLC            Officine Farneto (“Farneto Offices”) is a recently restored out-building from...

Feast of Rome Art and Architecture: Moretti's L'ex GIL Open for Business

Young and hip outside L'ex GIL on opening night of art exhibition We lovers of 20 th Century Italian architecture again found ourselves ...

Enter, Monumentally: Fascist-Era Doors and Entryways

Rome has some really big doors and entranceways; you'll see them all over the city.  Some are so big that they seem almost silly, archit...

The Station(s) at Tiburtina

The Tiburtina railroad station, the one near Piazza Bologna, was torn down about two years ago, and another took its place on November 28.  ...

Gio Ponti's Rome Building: the Scuola di Matematica

Ponti's La Pavoni espresso machine, 1948 Architect and designer Gio (pronounced "Joe," as in Gio vanni) Ponti is little known ...

Michael Graves: The Rome Connection

Graves's studio at the American Academy (#9) We've never met Michael Graves, the famous architect.  But we have had a close encounte...

RST Top 40. #5: Foro Mussolini/Foro Italico

Fascism's legacy is everywhere in Rome.  But only in three places--EUR, to the south of the city; the University district, in central Ro...

RST Top 40. #9: Piazza Augusto Imperatore - Rome's most abused piazza

Piazza Augusto Imperatore – the piazza named after the dominating Roman emperor, Augustus – comes in at #9 on our Rome the Second Time Top 4...

Fascism's Architectural Legacy: The Colonie di Vacanza

 Camp "Fascismo Novarese," in Miraare di Rimini.  Original photo by Dan Dubowitz, c. 2005  In the 1930s and early 1940s, Mussoli...