Marcello Piacentinis Mother House of the Mutilated in Roma

The Casa Madre dei Mutilati in Rome is one of the lesser-known works of the architect Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960). Its history is closely linked to the dramatic events of the First World War and to the resulting association of Italian war invalids. The architecture reacts to the self-interpretation of the war invalids as living martyrs and has a meaningful and representative task. In the short period before the consolidation of Mussolini's fascist regime, a modern style is manifested here, which attempts to combine classicism and avant-garde before the typical abstraction of the thirties. The tradition of Italian architectural history is still present without falling into a monumental formalism.