PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Paolo Nicoloso is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of Trieste. Sylvia Notini is a freelance translator and a professor of English Language, Literature, and Translation at the University of Bologna.
"""An essential, unique contribution to our understanding of fascist-era Italy's monumental architectural and urban works. Mussolini, Architect shows in detail how Mussolini personally manipulated architecture (and architects) for purposes of political persuasion, by accompanying architects on site visits, altering designs, critiquing plans, and positioning himself (not always incorrectly) as a design expert."" --Mia Fuller, Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""Paolo Nicoloso's carefully researched and provocative book challenges simplistic equations between architecture and politics by interrogating the ways in which Mussolini sought to deploy the material, formal, cultural, and spatial logic of architecture in the making of a modern fascist Italy."" --Lucy M. Maulsby, Professor of Architectural History, Northeastern University ""Nicoloso takes us on a journey through a few of the hallmarks of Mussolini's designs, perhaps reminding all of us that these buildings - appropriately cleansed of fascist attentions - are indeed something to be merited and something to admire. Spread out across the country as they are, beyond the willingness of their creator to imagine a future greater than the past, they speak to the past but address the future in ways that are still unfolding today. Nicoloso got it right in more ways than one."" --Diane Ghirardo, Professor of Architecture and Art History, University of Southern California"
