A Site of Memory
René Ammann | 6. January 2025
“The Casa del Fascio was targeted for demolition in the 1950s,” per the New York Times, “yet Bruno Zevi, a Jewish architect and critic, headed a long line of leftist eminences who noisily defended the building and its creator.” (Photo: Danny Alexander Lettkemann/Wikimedia Commons)
Minimum number of times the rationalist Casa del Fascio, or House of Fascism, designed in 1932 by Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni, then 28, and completed in 1936, has been threatened with demolition or alteration: 3