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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1937-1940 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLibera, Adalbertoen_US
dc.date1937-1940en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T16:42:13Z
dc.date.available2013-03-20T16:42:13Z
dc.date.issued1937-1940en_US
dc.identifier201886en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1105en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/109648
dc.descriptionTight view along the west elevation; 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. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/1/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediummarble; wooden_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectEsposizione universale di Roma (1942 : Rome, Italy)en_US
dc.subjectFascismen_US
dc.subjectNovecento italianoen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleEUR: Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e Congressien_US
dc.title.alternativePalazzo delle Esposizionien_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-FA-EUR-3-B2en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeexhibition buildingen_US
dc.contributor.displayAdalberto Libera (Italian architect, 1903-1963)en_US


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