Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Lapadula & Mario Romano © the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

This beautiful though controversial building is one of the many architectural marvels built in Mussolinis Italy. The centerpiece of what was supposed to be the 1942 Esposizione Universale Roma - the modern-day 12th quarter of Rome - ended up being vacant for decades. The intended program for the building - a museum on the origin of Italy and it's relationship with Fascism - became obsolete when the second World War concluded and with it the Fascist state. Nonetheless is the building both an ode to simplicity as pre-modern architecture.