IL GESTO
During the fascist regime in Italy (1922-1943), Mussolini instituted a
series of extraordinary land reclamation programs that aimed to turn
Italy’s marshes into fertile agricultural grounds.
Between 1932
and 1938 the regime constructed about 150 New Towns throughout Italy, and many of them featured rationalist planning and
architecture.
In the idea of the Duce, the best way to economically strengthen the link between the territory and its population was to develop a new sense of belonging.
Far from the monumental projects found in the major capitals, the buildings in the pictures materializes the essentials needs of civic life but theirs aesthetic is charged with values of social controls and transformation.
PARIS DEVELOPPEMENT
It is at the end that the series takes on an almost philosophical aspect, prophetic of the meaning that Walter Benjamin gave to architecture, as a present image of tomorrow's projections, a dream or nightmare that has become matter and that only the mechanical eye of photography is capable of restoring to us humans, the passers-by, the distracted men and women of contemporary cities.
LUX LAND
Lewis Baltz wrote some twenty years ago that Luxembourg, with its 70,000 inhabitants and 270 banks, reminded him of the "Las Vegas Strip", with banks instead of casinos.
GRENOBLE
À mi-chemin entre architecture, sociologie, histoire et photographie, cette exposition-parcours-installation propose, à la Plateforme (Ancien Musée de peinture), une réflexion sur les différents sites urbains grenoblois qui ont été portés par une dimension utopique. Premier chapitre : le centre commercial Grand’Place.
This is my firs work on the architecture as a vector of social stabilisation and as a rethoric of power.
