- L’utopia e la città ideale
- Giandomenico Amendola
Le architetture parlanti
- Giandomenico Amendola
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.24
The chapter examines architecture as a communicative medium for utopian ideals, from Hugo's "this will kill that" to the spectacular urban visions of World's Fairs and totalitarian cities. Crystal Palace, the Eiffel Tower and Chicago's White City offered mass audiences images of a better future, while fascist foundation towns inverted the utopian tradition, using ideal urban form to legitimise power rather than imagine social transformation.
- Keywords:
- speaking architecture,
- World's Fair,
- Eiffel Tower,
- fascist cities,
- urban symbolism,
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Le architetture parlanti
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.24
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
L’utopia e la città ideale
Book Subtitle
Sogni, paure, desideri
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
120
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0984-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0985-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0986-1
Series Title
People_Places_Architecture
Series ISSN
2975-0415
Series E-ISSN
2975-027X