Rialto - The market island in Venice
The book "Rialto - The market island in Venice" by Donatella Calabi will be presented in Venice on Monday 12 October 2020 at 19:00
The book "Rialto - The market island in Venice" by Donatella Calabi will be presented in Venice on Monday 12 October 2020 at 19:00
Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, the salvific model of Grand Projects affirmed itself as a final attempt to overcome the deterministic and extensive visions of Functional Planning which marked that very same century.
Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Italian political geography was polarized by a number of cities of different sizes and traditions: Rome and Florence, Milan and Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin and Modena, either ancient republics or new dynastic capitals, satellites of the great European monarchies or small Signorias.
The program offers a broad reflection on the topic of regeneration of market spaces and production sites by analyzing their history and impact as a cultural heritage, also in terms of sound landscapes.