Rationalism was an avant-garde Italian movement of the 1920s and 1930s led the Gruppo Sette, an architectural organization founded in 1926. Their design, closely related to that of Modernists, combined clean, abstract forms with new materials and the latest technology.
Rationalists anticipated that works would become Fascist Italy's look of choice; the Rationalists in fact won few major public commissions perhaps because other nationalistic leaders found the style to be too internationally-oriented. Terragni´s House of Fascism (1933-1936) in Como is one of the most noteworthy examples of a Rationalist work commissioned by the Fascist government. Other noteworthy Rationalist works include Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini's clean steel and glass factory (1937) for Oliverri at Ivrea and Franco Albini´s Room for a Man at the 1936 Triennale in Milan.