Movement
Italian Rationalism
Explore in the Atlas →An interwar Italian modernism launched by the Gruppo 7 (1926) and exemplified by Giuseppe Terragni's Casa del Fascio, seeking a disciplined synthesis of classical order and machine-age abstraction under, and in tension with, the Fascist state.
Production Power
Details
- Origin
- Italy
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Sources
- Richard A. Etlin. Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890–1940. MIT Press, 1991.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Italian Rationalism." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/italian-rationalism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.