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23 de jun. de 2021 · This multicoloured temple to Italian Futurism is now finally being revealed to the public thanks to a major project by Rome’s MaXXI museum of contemporary art and architecture, Casa Balla:...
- The 1942 World’S Fair
- Basilica Dei Santi Pietro E Paolo, Piazzale Santi Pietro E Paolo
- Palazzo degli Uffici, Viale Della Civiltà Del Lavoro
- Palazzo Dello Sport (Palalottomatica), Piazzale Dello Sport
- Palazzo Dell’Inps, Piazzale Nazioni Unite
- EUR’s Museums
- The Cloud, Viale Asia, 40
- How to Get to EUR
In 1936, Italy’s fascist regime was successful in their application to host the planned 1942 World Exhibition in Rome. The driving force of the plan was the governor of Rome Giuseppe Bottai, but Mussolini was immediately enthusiastic - for him, the bombastic event would be a crowning commemoration celebrating 20 years of fascist rule in the country...
At the highest point in EUR, the quarter’s flagship modernist church lords it over the surrounding terrain. Reached by a long ramp of shallow steps inlaid with coloured marbles and flanked by Roman cypresses framing twin statues of Saints Peter and Paul, the cubist Basilica is the masterpiece of the architect Arnaldo Foschini - who had also collabo...
The first building to be completed under the auspices of the EUR project was designed by Gaetano Minnuccito house the exhibition’s offices and bureaucratic centre. Characterised by a severe portico supported by elegant modernist pillers, the façade is topped with an inscription celebrating the expansion of the city towards the sea under the fascist...
After the failure of the plans for the 1942 World’s Fair, it was the awarding of another major event to the Italian capital that gave the final impetus for EUR’s development: the 1960 Summer Olympics. At the heart of the preparations for the 17th modern Olympiad was the futuristic Palazzo dello Sport overlooking EUR’s artificial lake (home to the r...
Another rationalist take on the architectural riches of antiquity, the headquarters of the INPS (part of the Italian labour ministry), boasts an unimpeachable provenance – the sweeping semi-circular façade with a lower bay of openings surmounted by two rows of curving colonnades is a futuristic update of ancient Trajan’s Market, a landmark of class...
EUR is also home to some of Rome’s most interesting and (sadly) little visited alternative museums. The entrance to the museum quarter is heralded by Arturo Dazzi’s modernist obelisk dedicated to radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi in the centre of the eponymous piazza (originally known as Piazza Imperiale). Surrounding the piazza on all sides are the ...
The latest stage in EUR’s continuing evolution, the bombastic convention centre designed by Italian starchitect Massimiliano Fuksaswas finally completed in 2016. The largest new build in Rome for half a century, the EUR Convention Centre is communally known as The Cloud (La Nuvola) thanks to the distinctive undulating shape of its central fibre-gla...
The quickest way to reach EUR from the city centre is by hopping on the B line of the metro heading south towards the Laurentina terminus. Get off at EUR Fermi, and you’ll be within easy walking distance of all the sites mentioned in this guide. You can also take any of the busses heading along via Cristoforo Colombo (lines 30, 174 and 714) – arriv...
22 de jul. de 2023 · Italian Futurism was an immensely popular art movement. It represented the unstoppable force of modernity, and celebrated machines, speed, and technology. It connected artists like Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carrà, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Gino Severini.
18 de fev. de 2023 · The Futurists and their fascist allies fantasized about a contemporary, industrialized Italy while yearning for the glory of ancient Rome. Futurism as a coherent and organized artistic movement is now regarded as extinct, having died out in 1944 with the death of its leader Marinetti. Characteristics of the Futurism Art Movement
1 de nov. de 2023 · Prompt: Ancient Rome-Inspired Futuristic Icons. This was created with Dall-E 3 on this site: www.bing.com/create. I upscaled the image on this site: imglarger.com/ I uploaded links of the images I have made with Dall-E 3 and not uploaded to Deviantart. Over 2000 images. You can use them with CC3 license. github.com/MartinHolts/Dall-E-… Image size.
28 de fev. de 2024 · This allegory for modern technology superseding the paternal influence of the past, Gazourmah-as-Futurism overwhelming its creator, Mafarka-as-Marinetti is transplanted into a colonial context. Motherhood too, in Marinetti’s Africa, is an ambiguous concept.
16 de abr. de 2021 · What is Futurism? It was not only an art movement, but a reaction to the traditional arts and antiquated ideals underlying the cultural structures of Italy. The avant-garde ideals of what Futurism stood for started in a manifesto published in 1909, by its founder, Filippo Marinetti.
