By Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi
Each 5 or 6 years, a special state takes the architectural lead in Europe: England got here to the fore with excessive Tech within the early 80s; through the top of the 80s, France got here to prominence with Francois Mitterand’s nice Parisian tasks; within the 90s, Spain and Portugal have been gaining knowledge of a brand new culture; and lately the focal point has been at the Netherlands. during this ever moving ecu panorama, Italy is now set to problem the established order. Already domestic to a couple of the world’s so much well-renowned architects - Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas and Antonio Citterio – it additionally has many proficient architects like Mario Cucinella, Italo Rota, Stefano Boeri, the ABDR team and Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, who're now gaining foreign cognizance. in addition there's a rare emergence of more youthful architects – the Erasmus iteration – that's commencing to understand a few very promising constructions in their personal.
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Five have been selected for this section: Stefano Boeri, Mario Cucinella, the group known as ABDR, Italo Rota and Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo. The choice was not an easy one because Italy is full of architects who, with respect to the aforementioned, are much better known. There is Cino Zucchi, whose recently completed group of buildings on Venice’s Giudecca Island earned him a great deal of respect, and not only in Italy, because through his architecture and the conservation of a language that is cautiously contemporary he manages to be brilliantly contextual.
The south- and north-facing facades are entirely transparent, and protection against solar heat gain is ensured throughout the building via a steel-fin roof that drops partially down over the facade, providing the necessary levels of shading/passage of the sun’s rays at different times of the year. Cucinella achieved international notoriety in 1997 with a highly publicised project that has become a manifesto for the work of MCA: the iGuzzini Lighting Company headquarters in Recanati. The project was commissioned after a generational change in the Guzzini family and thus the idea of marking a new company line.
The materials are not used for their tectonic or structural possibilities, but as surfaces of cladding. In the building along the Elba River in Hamburg, the large, flat windows in no way define a volume. In terms of Italian architecture, Citterio finds himself leading, almost on his own, a battle in favour of simplicity and linearity. His architecture is functional and direct and elegant without being trendy. His end game is certainly not that of producing spectacular and science-fictional images; his works are not monuments and they lack any transversal symbols or meaning.