PONTE FLAMINIO
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)
