1820-1878

king of Sardinia

- played a large part in italian unification

1870 - 226,000 people

1900 - 500,000

1921 - 700,000

1941 - 1,400,000

A - Prati

governing classes

B - Ludovisi

C - Castro Pretorio

D - Via Nazionale (de Merode)

E - piazza Vittorio Emanuele II

governing classes

F - Testaccio

working classes

Palazzo di Giustizia

1888-1911

Guglielmo Caldarini

- contains as much travertine as 2 colosseums

- in continuous restoration since construction

- very heavily decorated with classical surface details

- designed to express the authority of the Italian state

palazzo della Civilita di Lavoro

"colosseo quardato"

1938-1943

Giovanni Guerini, Ernesto Bruno, Mario Romano

- it is what it looks like it is.

all sorts of ministries such as:

- Ministry of the Treasury (1872-1878)

- Ministry of Defense (1875-1889)

Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II

1885-1927

Giuseppe Sacconi

- along with the Palazzaccio, it typifies the early phase of Roma Capitale

- surface art not classical, but Art Nouveau in italy called "stile Liberty"

- eclectic, monumental style that followed Vittorio Emanuele's death in 1878

- named for King Umberto I (the heir)

Palazzo degli Esposizioni

1877-1883

Pio Piacentini

- one of the most representative of stile umbertino

- neoclassical, yet heavily decorated

Palazzo di Montecitorio

(back side)

Ernesto Basile

1903-1927

- stile liberty

1950

- road planned to replace Mussolini's demolished spina di Borgo

- meant to celebrate concordat with Pope

- made a visual connection with the vatican

Citta Universitaria

1933-1935

Marcello Piacentini

in Sapienza

- all sorts of rationalist fascist arch.

- first place bombed in WWII

Scuola di Matematica

Gio Ponti

1934

- populated by the dispossessed populations of areas of rome that Mussolini demolished

- on the outskirts of rome, not quite country, not quite rock and roll (city)

- extremely dirty, unpleasant, and often impoverished

Garbatella

intended for the working classes

Montesacro

intended for the middle classes

1924

- the first borgata

- built to house people displaced by the monument to Vittorio Emanuele

- the largest borgata

- several km behind vatican

- populated by those displaced by mausoleum of augustus and corso rinascimento

- gave the fascit regime the ability to contain opposition in a small area

- Acilia

- Primavalle

- Trullo

- Quarticciolo

- Quadrato

- Tor Marancia

- Tiburtino

- very slowly provided with services

- like borgate, but higher up on the pecking order

- includes:

Testaccio

the little aventine

Garbatella

- subsidized housing for the lower middle class

1937

Marcello Piacentini

- axial plan

- monumental architecture with stripped-down classicism

- down via ostiense

Chiesa di Ss. Pietro e Paolo

Arnoldo Foschini

1938

- uncontrolled growth

- as exemplified by roman urbanism after 1946

Corviale

1972-1982

Mario Fiorentino

- capable of housing 14,000 people