Architettura razionalista — Rationalist architecture — took hold of Italy, particularly Rome, most prominently during the 1920s through to the 1940s. Its reasoning was derived following the Baroque era of over-the-top illusionary decoration, instead speaking to the science of space. With the patronage of Mussolini’s Fascist regime, a group of fresh-faced architects known as the Gruppo 7 developed its manifesto for what building design ought to be. The seven declared “the new architecture, the true architecture, should be the result of a close association between logic and rationality.”
