Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. The result was a variety of styles that still influence architecture today. Along the way, Meades ponders on the nature of fascism, the influence of the Futurists, and Mussolini's love of a fancy uniform.
With the construction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh, the Swiss and French architect Le Co...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modern Masterpiece, Unity Temple is an homage to America’s most renowned archit...
On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...
In the heart of Paris, an entire palace has disappeared. It was the very first residence of the king...
A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of ext...
A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauha...
The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
A history of the political and social repression carried out by the ruthless regime of Spanish dicta...
In the midst of the chaos of México City, a group of eight bachelor millennials who call themselves ...
Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude ...
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922...
One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...
L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...