PROPAGANDA IN ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1920-1930s. ON THE EXAMPLE OF ITALY, GERMANY, USA AND USSR

Abstract

The article examines examples of propaganda in architecture in the 1920s and 1930s, using Italy, Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union as examples. The state has always used architecture as a tool of emotional, psychological, physical influence on the individual, society and other states. Therefore, propaganda in architecture can be found in totalitarian states as well as in countries with a liberal form of government. Thus, American skyscrapers became the basis for Soviet architectural projects. In Germany, architecture was used as a means of propaganda and competition with the Soviet regime at the World's Fairs. In Italy in the first half of the 20th century, futurism and rationalism dominated. In the first half of the twentieth century in different countries appear projects for the redevelopment of capitals, for example, the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow, the General Plan for Rome in 1931, the restructuring of Berlin under A. Hitler, the “Plan Voisin” by Le Corbusier.