06/05/2024 – The exercise of travel, in addition to following the routes traced by the Masters, can be practiced through itineraries of contemporary architecture. The exhibition is an example of this I travel to italy. Contemporary architecture itineraries, scheduled from 12 May to 23 June 2024 in the internal courtyard of Rocca Estense in Lugo (Ravenna).
The project is promoted by ProViaggiArchitettura, with the patronage of the Municipality of Lugo, of the CNAPPC – National Council of architects, planners, landscape architects, conservators, of the Federation of the orders of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservators of Emilia-Romagna and of the OAPPC – Order of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservators of the province of Ravenna.
The route, real and expository, winds through 19 places from North to South, territories that host projects conceived by young Italian architecture firms with around ten years of activity behind them. An overview that is not exhaustive but «represents a significant cross-section of the work of a new generation of architects: professionals who conduct their research through the academy and the construction site, passing through architectural competitions as a preferential route towards the quality of the project».
Talking is Roberto Bosicurator of the exhibition together with Mattia Pavarottiresponsible for the selection of the studies involved:
a25architectsAM3 Architetti Associati, AMAA, Archisbang Associates Architecture, BALANCE, BDR bureau, Ciclostile Architettura, DEMOGO, ellevuelle architects, ErranteArchitetture, FONDAMENTA, Messner Architects, MD41, OASI architects, horizontal, studio wok, Supervoid, VG13 Architects.
The projects include an agricultural pavilion, a liturgical hall, a contemporary art gallery, a farmhouse converted into a hospitality space, a funeral home, as well as a pavilion dedicated to temporary exhibitions and conferences on the theme of landscape memory mining. Libraries, workplaces for artists, residences, offices, schools that dot the peninsula, becoming part of the cultural and natural heritage of the country. The selection was conducted on the basis of a search by link between public and private space, external and internalaimed at establishing a relational process for sharing spaces.
The staging is also based on relationships. Curated by the collective horizontalavoid unnecessary waste and adapt the project designed for the 2022 exhibition Squares. Phenomenologies of the unexpected. By connecting with the historic building, reconfigures it in spaces and relationships: the panels, as in an album of snapshots, favor the immediacy of vision to create a complete and exhaustive storywhile the base of the exhibition wall widens to create a seat ready to welcome passers-by and visitors, inviting them to sit inside the space, which from a passageway courtyard becomes a place for relationships and study.
Marcello Bacchini, director of ProViaggiArchitettura, explains: «The exhibition presents itself as an urban intervention, as ephemeral architecture that becomes an aggregation element, making the public space transformative and permeable. The The project aims to promote the relationships that are generated between citizens and the city, as well as the synergies that have been created between the partners who have actively joined the initiative by supporting its implementation. An example of how to network by bringing added value to the community».
