Photo-Collage e Rhetoric of Regime. Piero Bottoni and the Design of the Piazza of the Armed Forces at the EUR in Rome

In the twenties of last century, the contamination of the architectural drawing with photography and compositional techniques based on collage and inspired by figurative experiences of the European avantgarde, offers some authors the opportunity not only to amplify the visual realism of their renderings but also to convey a critical idea of the design space as well as of contemporary society through the contrast between drawn signs and photographic accessories. In the 1937 contest for the Armed Forces Plaza in Rome, Piero Bottoni, demonstrates all the spatial and visual potentials of collage and montage techniques as critical means.