Marcello Piacentini e il progetto per l’Auditorium di Roma in via dell’Impero
The essay deals with the vicissitudes of Marcello Piacentini's projects for the Roman auditorium, analyzed in light of unpublished documentation found in the archive of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in which a dense network of contacts emerge between the architetct and the count Enrico di San Martino Valperga, president of the institution. The two proposals, 1932 and 1938, provided for the construction of the new headquarter in a symolic area of Mussolini's Rome, the same of competition projects for the Palazzo del Littorio and the Danteum by Terragni.