Meades Ben Building 2016

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Mussolini Monuments Modernism Marble. Presente, life and death. Meades continues his shapely thoughts on architecture and the cult of fascism. If the extreme right is a race horse, and the extreme left is a carthorse, what sort of horse is Fascism? It's the sort of horse called a combine harvester. Which, of course, is not a horse. It's not even an animal . • Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. The result was a variety of styles that still influence architecture today. • Along the way, Meades ponders on the nature of fascism, the influence of the Futurists, and Mussolini's love of a fancy uniform. • Series playlist: • Meades, Authoritarian Architecture • Meades playlist: • Up JONATHAN MEADES

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