Looks as if there’s more than one dictator in this building. A Queens condo-board and property manager has plastered images of Hitler and Mussolini in the building’s lobby, according to his ...

The town hall of Predappio, Palazzo Varano, in Italy. The Italian dictator Mussolini was born in the town in 1883, and for a time he lived in this building, which was once a school.

American architects knew of Mussolini’s grandiose building projects, and some publicly lauded them. Cass Gilbert, who designed the Supreme Court building, met Mussolini on a 1927 visit to Italy to ...

Building a museum on the history of fascism might seem like an eccentric way of detracting from the town’s Mussolini connection, but Frassineti says that’s one of his goals.

The Casa del Fascio, or House of Fascism, in Predappio, Italy. The town’s mayor, working with historians, plans to transform the building into a museum and center for the study of fascism.

ROME—Benito Mussolini was just 39 years old when he conquered Rome as Italy’s youngest-ever prime minister. What started as a desire to leave his mark on the eternal city metastasized into ...

In light of what came afterward, all of these clips and photographs now have the air of a doomed cult. But if you try to look at them with fresh eyes—if you can forget that Mussolini wrought ...

Having previously turned his perverse eye and tumultuous vocabulary on Stalin (Joe Building) and Hitler (Jerry Building), Meades arrived perforce at Ben Building, in which (with director/cameraman ...

I n the opening moments of Sky’s new, eight-part biopic Mussolini: Son of the Century, we hear the man himself speak.“For 20 years you adored me and feared me, as a god. Then you madly hated ...

Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini's Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism ...