EUR: Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e Congressi (Rome, Italy) : Frontal view, from the west, depicting its location at the end of Viale della Civilta del Lavoro
- Creator:
- Libera, Adalberto, 1903-1963
- Published/Created:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
1937-1940 - Date Depicted:
- 5/15/1997
1900 AD - 1949 AD - Materials:
- marble
wood - Notes:
- Two buildings of the late 1930s are considered to be Libera's masterpieces. One is the Villa Malaparte, built for Curzio Malaparte on the island of Capri in 1938, an enigmatic design of a block of a house-cum-stair. The second is the winning competition entry for the Palazzo de Ricevimenti e Congressi (Palazzo delle Esposizioni; 1937-1940) in the Città Giardino EUR outside Rome. This building is possibly the finest example of a great interior space in the architecture of 20th-century Italy and is considerably larger than Giuseppe Terragni's interior atrium in the Casa del Fascio (now Casa del Popolo) in Como. The building also portrays the problems of a Fascist and a Modernist architecture. The rear façade is composed of a great curtain wall, braced by elegant vertical bow-trusses, covered by a wide overhanging concrete slab, while at the front vaguely Doric columns support the slab, thus presenting a 'Roman' face to the city.
- Variant Titles:
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Palazzo dei Congressi - Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Modern
Modernist
Novecento italiano - Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A3-FA-EUR-3-A1
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
exhibition buildings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; Esposizione universale di Roma (1942 : Rome, Italy); Fascism construction buildings; exhibition buildings
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module Two
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
5/15/1997 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10168989
- PID:
- digcoll:1821765