Paesaggi
Architecture in the Small State
“The idea is to help people and society to meet in architecture”, said Kazuyo Sejima. Meeting spaces are places created to satisfy the need for social relations. Since squares and markets nolonger play the same role they did in the past, this need seems to be met primarily by the new “cathedrals of consumption”, although, fortunately, not only there. In San Marino, in a territory of...
Exemplary Architecture
in San Marino
Architecture in the small State. Nine photographers for nine architectural works wishes to acknowledge the quality of the architecture of the Republic, inspired by the idea contained in the title of the 12. International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia 2010, an invitation to meditate on the meeting between buildings, spaces and...
The Seduction of Place
Every work of architecture is generated by a need. And from the very moment that the architecture takes shape, the original need generates a system of relationships, some concrete, others intangible, which develop in synchrony with the space. Relationships between disciplines and materials, between individual skills and public or private interests, between the morphology...
Narrative and Document
The purpose of the exhibition with which the Republic of San Marino opens at the 12. International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia 2010 is not to highlight a certain number of architectural works, but to interpret the relationship between architectural spaces and their users. In this study, photography was chosen as the preferred means of...
Images by fragments
A few years after it was officially discovered in France in 1839, photography was immediately perceived as a useful tool for the documentation of the landscape. The reason is obvious: in an era of great technical and industrial transformations, a rapid and natural method for reproducing reality was the natural counterpart for a society that needed a faster, more...