Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy

Brian L. McLaren, Ph.D. (MIT, 2001), is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. He has published books, book chapters, and essays on the relationship between architecture and politics in Italy and its colonies during the Fascist era.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Imperial Ambitions2 Racial Discontents3 Foundational Arguments4 Sources and Theoretical Premises5 Organization and ContentPART 1Modern Urbanism and the Territorialization of Race1 Introduction2 Rural Urbanism, Colonial Urbanism1 An Olympics of Civilization1 Foundational Acts2 The 1937 Master Plan3 The 1937 Program2 Commercial Networks and Colonial Geographies1 Foundational Myths2 Organizational Logic3 The 1938 Master Plan3 Urban Planning and Racial Politics1 Addis Ababa, 19382 Esposizione Universale di Roma, 19383 Mostra d’Oltremare, 1939PART 2Modern Architecture and Racial Eugenics1 Introduction2 Art and Race3 Architecture and Race4 An Architecture of Racial Purification1 First Public Competitions2 Piazza ed Edifici delle Forze Armate5 An Architecture of Racial Prestige1 Public Competitions2 Three Sectors: Mapping Race3 The Padiglione della Libia: Staging Race6 Autarchy in Architecture1 A Journalistic Discourse2 Autarchy at the E423 Artistic ParallelsPART 3Architecture, Racial Politics, and War1 Introduction to Part 32 A Wartime Discourse3 A Wartime Mentality7 A Work of Fascist Labor1 A Process of Construction2 A Public Ceremony3 A Village and a Palace8 The War and the Indigenous Villages1 Wartime Constructions2 In the Shadow of War3 Empire, Race, and War9 Architecture During Wartime1 A Space of Confinement2 A Site of ConflictConclusionPost(war) ScriptBibliographyIndex