Marcello Piacentini

Piacentini devised a "simplified neoclassicism" midway between the neo-classicism of the Novecento Italiano group (Gio Ponti and others) and the rationalism of the Gruppo 7 of Giuseppe Terragni, Adalberto Libera and others.

[1] His style became a mainstay of Fascist architecture in Rome, including the new university campus (Università di Roma La Sapienza, 1932) and the E.U.R district, of which he was not only designer, but also High Commissar by will of Benito Mussolini.

His other works include the renovation of Brescia and Livorno, the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria, the opening of Via della Conciliazione in Rome, and the restoration of the Rome Opera House (1928–1958).

The style of his buildings is characteristic of the Neo-Moorish period of Italian colonial architecture in Libya in the 1920s.

Piacentini was made project manager of all Italian building works in Cyrenaica.

Marcello Piacentini portrayed with the uniform of a member of the Royal Academy of Italy
The new campus of Rome University (1935)
Generali Building