Photo-collage e retorica di regime. Piero Bottoni e il progetto per la piazza delle Forze armate all’EUR di Roma

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 avant-garde, 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.