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During its twenty-year existence, Italian Fascism never ceased to relate to the structures of historical time, producing an immense amount of narratives, concepts and representations aimed at tracing the past, present and future boundaries of the Mussolini's "revolution" and, with it, of the nascent Fascist era. Participating in this continuous construction and historical reconstruction was also a large part of Italian architectural culture, attracted by the promises of the regime and gradually set as one of the most important intellectual ramifications of it. Not only through simple constructive practice but also through magazines, projects, debates, institutions and exhibitions, architectural culture was able to acknowledge and disseminate the historical imaginations of the Fascist era, contributing, even in its extreme conflict, to their structuring. The seminal objective of the present work is then to propose an unprecedented reading of this twenty-year historical tension, analyzing these narrations and representations as parts of a wider regime of historicity, both eclectic and paradoxical. In pursuing this goal, the Italian architectural field will then be exploited as a guide, a privileged angle of view through which to circumscribe the research field and reconstruct, as far as possible, the origins and evolutions of this complex and undeniably decisive historical period.