What is fascist architecture?

[Your Old Comrade]

This video discusses fascist architecture, its elements, characteristics and historical background.

[Scarface F]

Renewal of classicist Greco-Roman inspired forms generally, but also (at that time) modernism. It usually implies megalomanic ideas and "clean" aestethics. Don't have time to watch the video but just sharing random toughts.

[Your Old Comrade]

Renewal of classicist Greco-Roman inspired forms generally, but also (at that time) modernism. It usually implies megalomanic ideas and "clean" aestethics.

I think that fascist architecture generally lacks the elegance of classical or even neoclassical architecture. I refer to it "dode architectuur" (dead architecture).

[Scarface F]

I think that fascist architecture generally lacks the elegance of classical or even neoclassical architecture. I refer to it "dode architectuur" (dead architecture).

Well Adolf was obsessed with ancient Rome/Greece and wanted Berlin to be rebuilt in neo-classicist style. But I agree. I don't find it elegant.

[Your Old Comrade]

Well Adolf was obsessed with ancient Rome/Greece and wanted Berlin to be rebuilt in neo-classicist style. But I agree. I don't find it elegant.

I always find it comical that a self-styled nationalist like Hitler was so obsessed with what is, essentially foreign architecture and the architecture and being of an empire that subjugated his ancestors.

[Victor]

I always find it comical that a self-styled nationalist like Hitler was so obsessed with what is, essentially foreign architecture and the architecture and being of an empire that subjugated his ancestors.

But it was just tribes, when Rome was a superior culture and Empire. Just like Ancient Rome literature is superior to national German or any other, it's different levels.

[Your Old Comrade]

But it was just tribes, when Rome was a superior culture and Empire. Just like Ancient Rome literature is superior to national German or any other, it's different levels.

That makes Hitler an even bigger joke in my book, because of his, paradoxal, obsession with Germanicness.

[Hektor12]

Berlin Tempelhof Airport is a good example of fascist architecture. It was so spacious and magnificent looking that Allied forces had to renovate it to look "more normal".

As part of Albert Speer's plan for the reconstruction of Berlin during the Nazi era, Prof. Ernst Sagebiel was ordered to replace the old terminal with a new terminal building in 1934. The airport halls and the adjoining buildings, intended to become the gateway to Europe and a symbol of Hitler's "world capital" Germania, are still known as one of the largest built entities worldwide, and have been described by British architect Sir Norman Foster as "the mother of all airports". With its façades of shell limestone, the terminal building, built between 1936 and 1941, forms a 1.2-kilometre-long (0.75 mi) quadrant. Arriving passengers walked through customs controls to the reception hall. Tempelhof was served by the U6 U-Bahn line along Mehringdamm and up Friedrichstraße (Platz der Luftbrücke station).

The building complex was designed to resemble an eagle in flight with semicircular hangars forming the bird's spread wings. A 1.6-kilometre-long (1 mi) hangar roof was to have been laid in tiers to form a stadium for spectators at air and ground demonstrations. Norman Foster called Tempelhof "one of the really great buildings of the modern age".[14]

[Victor]

Berlin Tempelhof Airport is a good example of fascist architecture. It was so spacious and magnificent looking that Allied forces had to renovate it to look "more normal"

I love let's say 80% of Stalin's era architecture. It can also be named "fascist", same type. This concrete shit coming after him was just awful.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

In Portugal, this type of architecture is known as "Português Suave" and was promoted during the Estado Novo regime. It was incorporated almost everywhere from hospitals, banks, universities, courthouses, monuments, cinemas, theaters, sports stadiums and residential areas.