brown concrete building near green trees during daytime

Fascist architecture in Bozen. This is the headquarter of the 4th army corps or Alpini, a mountain combat batallion of the Italian Army. The layercake type of architecture is special and I like it. The character of my home town is that of a broken city – a double city at best. The German old town is confronted by a newtown which had all the worst of fascism planted in its DNA. Even more, its very existence is based on the intent of cultural brutalisation. It didn’t succeed but left the malign flame of violence and irrationalism invisibly burning somewhere underneath it – until this very day.