Architetture inabitabili

A new point of view about the architecture, to discover a different view of it from the commonly associated with living space use.

Born from the desire to explore the fascination and the complex nature of certain inhabitable architectures in Italy, the exhibition shows eight examples distributed throughout the country through a selection of images portraying them by type, use and period of construction.

The uninhabitable architectures featured by the exhibition are:

- The Gazometro di Roma, that rises like a modern Colosseo, an iconic presence in the films and TV series of recent years and also visible from the Centrale Montemartini, which hosts the exhibition and offers visitors an evocative comparison between the architecture and the world around it;

- The Memoriale Brion ad Altivole, an architectural complex designed by architect Carlo Scarpa and conceived as a burial place for the Brion family;

- The campanile semisommerso di Curon, located in Lake Resia in Trentino-Alto Adige, a fascinating Romanesque structure completely transformed by the construction of a dam that created the lake for hydroelectric purposes, submerging the village (which was destroyed), leaving only the bell tower to emerge;

- The Cretto di Gibellina, memorial installation by artist Alberto Burri, a large white concrete shroud encompassing the rubble of the town of Gibellina, destroyed in the 1968 Belice earthquake;

- The Lingotto di Torino, historical and famous architectural complex, designed by Giacomo Matté Trucco, which once housed the FIAT factory, becoming a symbol of the city's industrial history;

- The Ex Seccatoi di Città di Castello, that in 1966 hosted the flooded books of Florence, which were 'cured' here; having definitively lost their original function with the abandonment of tobacco cultivation in the 1970s, since 1990 they have housed Alberto Burri's last great painting cycles;

- The Torre Branca, originally a tower littoria, designed by Giò Ponti, conceived as a temporary structure for the 1933 Triennale, characterised by a steel trellis structure and equipped with a lift that allows visitors to reach the top and enjoy a panoramic view of Milan; it was restored after a period of relative neglect, and has been open again since 2002;

- The Palmenti di Pietragalla, proof of the local winemakers' skills, a stone rock architecture consisting of more than two hundred constructions arranged on different heights, once used as wine production workshops, which create a remarkable landscape impact, evoking fairy-tale atmospheres.