Italian modern and contemporary architecture

Italian modern and contemporary architecture refers to architecture in Italy during 20th and 21st centuries.

The Art Nouveau style was brought to Italy by figures such as Giuseppe Sommaruga and Ernesto Basile (who respectively designed the Palazzo Castiglioni and expanded the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome). The ideas of this new style were published in 1914, in the Manifesto dell'Architettura Futurista (Manifesto of Futurist Architecture) of Antonio Sant'Elia. Rationalism found itself within the Gruppo 7 (1926), yet after the dissolution of the group, its distinguished figures Giuseppe Terragni (Casa del Fascio Como), Adalberto Libera (Villa Malaparte in Capri) and Giovanni Michelucci (Santa Maria Novella Station in Florence, in collaboration) appeared. During the Fascist period the so-called "Novecento movement" flourished, with figures such as Gio Ponti, Peter Aschieri, Giovanni Muzio. This movement was based on the rediscovery of imperial Rome. Marcello Piacentini, who was responsible for the urban transformations of several cities in Italy, and remembered for the disputed Via della Conciliazione in Rome, devised a form of "simplified Neoclassicism".