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Rome's E42

Artwork for 1942 Esposizione Universale di Roma.
In the place of the U of Universale there is a V as in the ancient Rome's epigraphs.

Marcello Piacentini et alii, E42 site plan, 1939.

Marcello Piacentini et alii, E42 site plan, 1941.

Marcello Piacentini, E42 arch, perspective drawing, 1938-1941.
The giant arch was never built.

Marcello Piacentini et alii, E42 master model, centre toward south, circa 1940.

Marcello Piacentini et alii, E42 master model, from south-east, circa 1940.

Giovanni Muzio, Mario Paniconi, Giulio Pediconi, Porta Imperiale (Imperial gate), first version, axionometric perspective, 1938-1939.

Rome's E42, general perspective.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (Palace of Italian Civilization), frontal perspective, 1938.

Rome's E42, general perspective, early buildings.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, building.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, building, February 1940.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, frontal perspective.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, 1940.

Rome's E42, general perspective, 1953.
On the left: Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini and Mario Romano's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana.
On the front: Arnaldo Foschini, Alfredo Energici, Vittorio Grassi, Nello Ena, Tullio Rossi and Costantino Vetriani's Basilica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo (Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul; for the Catholic tradition, St. Peter and St. Paul are the Patron Saints of Rome).

Rome's E42, general perspective, 1953.
Details as in the previous picture.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, outside view, close-up with wooden structure of dioscure statue, 1938.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, outside view, dioscure statue, building.

Ernesto La Padula, Giovanni Guerrini, Mario Romano, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, outside view askance.

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Marcello Piacentini

The E42 is a site in the south-west of Rome, toward the sea. It was chosen in the mid-1930s as the site for the 1942 Esposizione Universale di Roma (Rome World's Fair). Italian architect Marcello Piacentini was chosen as the head of the project.

Adalberto Libera

Among the other architects involved in the project there were Adalberto Libera and Pier Luigi Nervi.

The first project on an area of 4 sq. km. (1,5 sq. mi.) was presented in 1938; the final project was presented in 1939. The name
was later changed in EUR.
The Expo never took place because of the World War II. The original project was left uncompleted when the works had to stop in 1942.
After the war, the original project was changed in a project of a business area.
The E42 (in the new denomination of EUR)
was almost completed for the 1960 Rome Olympics.

1960 Rome Olympics official artwork.

In 1960, the site was one of the two city areas (the other was the Flaminio, in the north of Rome) that hosted the competitions of the Olympics.

Italian revue and comedy star Peppino De Filippo in Federico Fellini's Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio.

The E42 (or EUR) was also the scenario of many 1960s Italian movies, such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Le
Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio (episode of De Sica, Fellini, Visconti and Monicelli's
Boccaccio '70, 1962), Michelangelo
Antonioni's L'Eclisse (The eclipse, 1962) and Elio Petri's La Decima Vittima (The tenth victim, 1965).