Il Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Cité EUR, Rome, Italy
Ernesto Bruno La Padula
Italian, 1902–1968
Giovanni Guerrini
Italian, 1887–1972
Mario Romano
Italian
1938
A graphite on tracing paper study for the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome, where the artist-architect maps out the building’s austere, repetitive arches and rigorous proportions.
The sheet meets you with clean, confident graphite lines on translucent tracing paper that reduce a monumental stone façade to a disciplined, rhythmic grid of archways and voids.
This drawing captures how 1930s Italian architects translated classical monumentality into a stripped, modular modernism—an emblem of design discipline that also makes visible the ways architecture was used to express political ideals and shaped later debates about monumental form.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
9 7/8 x 7 3/8" (25.1 x 18.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
324.1984
Art Terms
Exhibitions
