EXPANDED CITY

curated by Luca Albonico and Silvia Bertolotti

 

Downtown and suburbs: urban areas always in conflict with each other but at the same time strictly connected and necessarily complementary.
Architectural elements of a distand or recent past reveal themselves through the multiple aspects generated by those who animate them. Those elements are thus inserted inside a dialogue between organised and unorganised areas, between chaos and stillness, between proximity and distance, not only physical but often even psychological.
Our relationship with these places comes from a series of factors tied to the housing dimension, to emotional memory and for their being somehow ‘on a human scale’.
How is it possible to define a metropolitan space as admirable or as a place of disdain?
Horizontal levels and vertical peaks crossed by scenes of ordinary life, describe inhabited places that are lived in the most different ways. This reveals – without any judgement – not only what is around us but also what inevitably belongs to us.

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