Italian Studies

Dietrich Neumann's research concentrates mostly on late 19th and early 20th Century Architecture. He has published several books on German skyscrapers of the 1920s, on the history of film sets and lighting design. "A skyscraper for Mussolini" (AAFiles, 2014), his most recent Italy-related publication, describes in detail the work of Italian/Argentinian architect Mario Palanti, who designed skyscrapers in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and then planned the world's tallest skyscraper for the center of Rome under Mussolini.