Abstract
In the second half of the 1930s, urban planning, as part of the corporate organization of the Fascist state, seems to have acquired a strong identity as a discipline, its own field of action and an explicit relationship with political power. Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an avant-garde industrialist, patron and collaborator of Milan's young rationalist architects, saw in the corporate economy the possibility of implementing regional plans in which the factory would become the driving force behind territorial development, progress and, above all, in a perspective of class collaboration, the conjugation of the human and the social.
This was the founding principle of the Valle d'Aosta regulatory plan, coordinated by Olivetti between 1935 and 1937, whose architectural elements were designed by BBPR, Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini, and Piero Bottoni.
Rethought during the months of his exile in Switzerland thanks to his reading of French Catholic philosophers and adherence to the themes of social Christianity, this experience would create the basis for his post-war community project and cultural policies, in which the role of architecture and urban planning would be central.
