St. TERESA OF ÀVILA

S. TERESA D'AVILA
Corso d'Italia 37

1901/02 Tullio Passarelli (1869/1941)
Next door there is the General Curia of the Discalced Carmelites
It was built in Romanesque Revival style

In the FAÇADE
“Two marble lions” by Armando Brasini (1879/1965)

In the BRONZE PORTAL
Reliefs “Stories of St. Teresa” 1983 by Fra 'Serafino Melchiorre
“Statue of St. Teresa” by Giuseppe Trabacchi (1839/1909)

FLAMINIUM BRIDGE

PONTE FLAMINIO

Corso Francia

1938/43 Armando Brasini (1879/1965) with the engineer expert in reinforced concrete Aristide Giannelli (1888/1970)

Finished 1947/51 after the break for the war

Restored 1952/64 for a structural problem

Formerly known as PONTE 28 OTTOBRE (October 28 Bridge), the day of the fascist march on Rome, and then, after the war, as PONTE DELLA LIBERTÀ (Liberty Bridge)

According to the original plan there should have been a huge triumphal arch at the north entrance that Mussolini himself did not want to be made

On the big stones along the bridge are carved the main milestones of the Cassia Flaminia roads

“Brasini is one of the great intruders in the architecture of the twentieth century: his projects and works, which have also undoubted architectural qualities, except for rare moments of random tune with the spirit of the times are, in general, one of the cases of expulsion and removal of this spirit. The ones who met the 'cursed' architect describe him as a man of infinite charisma, charming and powerful, hanging always on the edge of the doubt, leaning against skepticism of which intelligence cannot do without. Brasini was an anachronistic who lived in his time always in opposition, who has been successful based on the possible misunderstanding of an adaptation with the Conservatives in power when in fact he was not conservative because his work has a very different trademark than the late eclectic one which dominated the beginning of the century” (Federico Roccabianca - www.academia.edu)

INAIL PALACE

PALAZZO DELL'INAIL

Via IV Novembre 144

1928/34 Armando Brasini (1879/1965)

“Brasini used the languages of the past, the classical and the baroque in particular, not passively and academically, but, in fact, creatively, considering them not as closed systems to be applied blindly but as open systems to be investigated again, asking them questions that had not been raised previously. Also the Eclecticism of the nineteenth century had been able in many cases to identify the way of creativity facing new functional themes, new dimensions and new technology, but in the use of historical languages it had adopted with few exceptions (Nash, Richardson, Antonelli, Basile) an instrumental attitude. Brasini came out of the eclectic orthodoxy looking for a continuation of styles, a search for an all-out development of the architectural language that would make it suitable for a different climate, a heroic climate, which could then seem credible and rich of future developments. It should not be forgotten that we are in the decades of the true and false revolutions that would have to choose between two types of rhetoric, the one proven by history and one to be invented, the rhetoric of modernity in action. The outcome was gigantism, rhetorical excess, theatricality imposed by the nascent film industry, but also the creation of works blessed by creative restlessness” (Paolo Portoghesi)

INAIL is the Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work)

Built on the site of the demolished Teatro Drammatico Nazionale (National Dramatic Theatre) by Francesco Azzurri (1831/1901), on the site of which, during the construction in 1888, the Hellenistic bronze statues of the “Boxer” and of the “Hellenistic Prince” had been found

The two masterpieces are now in the Museo Nazionale Romano at Palazzo Massimo

HOTEL PLAZA

HOTEL PLAZA 

Via del Corso 126-128

1834 Antonio Sarti (1797/1880) for the banker Antonio Lozza of whom it was the private palace

In 1860 it became Albergo Roma

In 1907 it changed name to Bertolini's Splendid and in 1930 to Hotel Plaza with a hall refurbished by Armando Brasini (1879/1965)

The composer Pietro Mascagni spent the last years of his life and died here in 1945

MONUMENTAL COMPLEX OF JESUS GOOD SHEPHERD

COMPLESSO DEL GESÙ BUON PASTORE

Via Bravetta 383

1930 Armando Brasini (1879/1965)

Formerly headquarters of the Nuns of Our Lady of Mercy of the Good Shepherd. Then it was transformed in a hospital with church attached and, since 1969, it is a school

"The important thing is not the discovery of Borromini (there are also many influences from Bernini in the Buon Pastore), but the courage to continue the Baroque research investigating the broken paths and showing a ruthlessness totally absent from the preceding and contemporary 'barocchetto' (small baroque) that was spread in Rome since the twenties" (Paolo Portoghesi)

Armando Brasini expressed here his remarkable, flamboyant and extravagant monumentalism, influenced at the same time by Donato Bramante and Francesco Borromini

In the seventies there was a structural failure and it was sadly mutilated of some high spires that could have been restored instead