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Abstract:  THE BUILDING OF A CAPITAL FORM THE GENERAL PLANS TO THE ARCHITETONIC TYPOLOGIES The extensive records concerning Rome capital city only sporadically mention the concentration of a large share of real estate assets in the hands of the Bank of Italy. Furthermore, the few references to it come in the form of transactions resulting from their sales. In reality, thanks to the hard work of investigation in the historic Archives of the Bank, it is possible to assume that the Bank itself had a discreet but nonetheless authoritative leading role in the recovery after the dramatic construction crisis. The layout of the ground ownership marks the borderline between architecture and city. The bank adopts inner management services (such as the Technical General Inspectorate Bureau since 1895; the drawing up of Inventories) and performs in the office of Convention-making with City Hall for the arrangement of the central areas and those of recent expansion, likewise, in the instances of the Ludovisi and Flamino neighborhoods, herein present as case studies. The scope of fashion tendencies and architectural models has no following as the Bank upholds the idea of “collective city”; all its technicians are almost entirely engineers (with the exception of architect- engineer Koch and the occasional collaboration of the Piacentini). The unitary system needs infrastructures, public works, and implementing devices rather than mere “representation”. Thanks to the Sanjust project and the 1911 Exhibition, the Institute’s policy – as a privileged interlocutor of the government, administrators, and engineers – becomes evermore incisive and proposing and takes on the role of guarantee in regards to the transactions taking place. It is able to mediate between public and private sectors, with different outcomes, some shadier than others. It employs “ancient regime-like” neasures: trade-offs in order to construct ample roads, a tendency toward building instead blocks, conforming with height regulations, regularization and alignment with the street margins, construction norms: though it is thanks to these measures that is able to impose typological utilization restrictions sketched in the development plan. At the same time, studying the different European experiences, a practice of experimenting that tends upon itself the responsibility of an “institutional” duty: the making of the city as a process, a convergence of many a condition (economic, normative, qualitative planning) that allow for the feasibility of the projects. Once the paperwork over, the stonework begins.