Week 7: Nazi Architecture, Italian Fascism, and Stalinist Socialist Realism

Casa del Fascio

1932-36

Como, Italy

Monument to Victory

1926–28

Marcello Piacentini

Bolzano, Italy

Zeppelin Field

1934–37

Albert Speer

Nuremberg, Germany

Post Office

1934

Angiolo Mazzoni

Sabaudia, Italy

Raffaello Sanzio Elementary School

1931-34

Adalberto Libera

Trento, Italy

Entrance propylaea, Citta Universitaria

1932-35

Arnaldo Foschini

Rome, Italy

Institute of Botany and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Citta Universitaria

1932-35

Giuseppe Capponi

Rome, Italy

Room O, Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution

1932

Giuseppe Terragni

Rome, Italy

Shrine of the Martyrs, Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution

1932

Adalberto Libera and Antonia Valente 

Rome, Italy

House of the Soviets

1936-41

Noi Trotsky

Leningrad, USSR

House of German Art

1933-37

Paul Ludwig Troost

Munich, Germany

Piazza Augusto Imperatore

1934–40

Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo

Rome, Italy

Danteum

1938

Giuseppe Terragni with Pietro Lingeri

Rome, Italy (unbuilt)

Agricultural village “Bianchi”

1938

Umberto Di Segni

Libya

E42 (EUR), master plan

1937–43

Marcello Piacentini and others

Rome, Italy

Lariana chair

1936

Giuseppe Terragni

Benita armchair

1936

Giuseppe Terragni

Luitpold Hall

c. 1936

Albert Speer

Nuremberg, Germany

Reichsautobahn

1933 

Germany

North–South Axis and Great Hall

1937–43

Albert Speer

Berlin, Germany (unbuilt)

Tempelhof Airport

1936–41

Ernst Sagebiel

Berlin, Germany

Hitler Youth hostel

c. 1935

Karl Vesser 

Urfeld, Germany

German Pavilion, Paris International Exposition

1937

Albert Speer

Paris, France

Soviet Pavilion, Paris International Exposition

1937

Boris Iofan

Paris, France

Palace of the Soviets

1933

Boris Iofan, Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh

Moscow, USSR (unbuilt)

Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom), competition project

1934

Ivan Leonidov

Moscow, USSR (unbuilt)

Apartment building on Mokhovaya Street

1932–34

Ivan Zholtovsky

Moscow, USSR

Lenin State Library

1928–41

Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh

Moscow, USSR

Apartment blocks A and B, Gorky Street

1937–39

Arkady Mordvinov

Moscow, USSR

Hotel Moskva

1932–38

Alexei Shchusev, Leonid Savelyev and Osvald Stapran

Moscow, USSR

Project for the Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets

1936

Second Planning Studio of the Moscow Soviet

Moscow, USSR

Krasnye Vorota Metro station, vestibule

1935

Nikolai Ladovsky

Moscow, USSR.

Karamyshevskaya Dam

Aleksei Rukhiliadev

Moscow

River Terminal

1937

Aleksei Rukhiliadev

Khimki, Moscow, USSR

Narkomtiazhprom (Ordzhonikidze) Sanatorium, 1934–38

Moisei Ginzburg and others

Kislovodsk, USSR

Large-block apartment building, Leningradsky Prospect

1940–41

Andrei Burov and

Boris Blokhin

Moscow, USSR.

Pavilion of the Uzbek SSR

All-Union Agricultural Exhibition

1934-40

Stepan Polupanov

Moscow, USSR

Central Pavilion, All-Union Agricultural Exhibition

1939

Vladimir Shchuko, Vladimir Gelfreikh and A. Velikanov

Moscow, USSR

Soviet War Memorial

Treptow Park

1946-49

Berlin, Germany

Kurskaya Metro station (Ring Line)

1950

Moscow, USSR

High building in Zaryadye

1949

Dmitry Chechulin

Moscow, USSR

Apartment building, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment

1947-52

Dmitry Chechulin and Andrei Rostkovsky

Moscow, USSR

Main Building of Moscow State University

1949-53

Lev Rudnev, Surgei Chernyshev, Pavel Abrosimov and Alexander Khryakov

Moscow, USSR

Palace of the Soviets (competition project)

1931

Le Corbusier

Moscow, USSR (unbuilt)

New Reich Chancellery

1938–39

Albert Speer

Berlin, Germany