Categoria: Architecture


  • Sono sempre stato affascinato dai luoghi del lavoro. Per molte ragioni: sono spazi enormi, con geometrie e volumi del tutto particolari, spesso dotati di una forza enorme, temibile.  Costruiti dall’Uomo, che vi trascorre una parte rilevante della propria esistenza – forse la migliore -, non sono fatti per viverci. Una contraddizione che ho cercato di…

  • Factory never sleeps My first corporate assignment was a reportage about the great oil refinery in Priolo, southern Italy. The petrochemical complex of Augusta-Priolo is an industrialized area, one of largest in Europe, located along the eastern coast of Sicily. The complex was built near the city of Siracusa, the ancient Greek town of Archimedes, listed…

  • Lodz is an industrial town, the second largest in Poland, which was “a promised land” during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. These years have been well described in Andrzej Wajda’s movie, inspired by the Wladyslaw Reymont’s book “Promised Land”. Afterwards, in 1927 Reymont was awarded by the Nobel Prize. Wajda in the ‘…