Dante

Giuseppe Terragni with P. Lingeri, Rome Italy, 1938-1940 (not built)

The Danteum is an unbuilt building, designed by architect Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri, which was supposed to be built in Rome at the intersection of Via Cavour and Via dell'Impero. The remains of the project give us Terragni's unrealized dream for a monument to Dante, in which the Divine Comedy was projected into an architectural scheme. (Source Wikipedia)

“an architectural organism which, through the balanced proportions of its walls, its rooms, its ramps, its stairs, its ceilings, and the changing play of light and sun, which penetrates from above, can give the sensation of contemplative isolation, of abstraction from the outside world”.
Giuseppe Terragni