> ENTER THE EXHIBITION <
20.06.2021
participants
Abaco (Paris, France)
Askesis Studio (Moscow, Russia)
Aureum40° (Caserta, Italy)
AZÓCAR CATRÓN (Concepción, Chile)
BIAS (Taipei City, Taiwan)
Boano Prišmontas (London, England)
BOLLES+WILSON (Münster, Germany)
Brunetto De Batté (Genova, Italy)
colab-19 (Bogota, Colombia)
Dasha Khapalova | Ballman Khapalova (New York, USA)
Denis Esakov (Berlin, Germany)
duepunti architetti (Terni, Italy)
False Mirror Office (Genova, Italy)
Fine Bound (Bucharest, Romania)
Gianvito Chiapparino (Bitonto, Italy)
gramática arquitectónica (Galicia, Spain)
ISTMO Architecture (Catanzaro, Italy)
Jorge Vidal Studio (Barcelona, Spain)
Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter (Stockholm, Svezia)
KWY.studio (Lisbon, Portugal)
Martin Feiersinger (Vienna, Austria)
Maxime Duquet (Madrid, Spain)
Nicola Boccadoro (London, England)
operadora. (Mexico City, Mexico)
Orto (Basel, Swizerland)
PONTOatelier (Madeira, Portugal)
sauermartins (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Stefanos Antoniadis (Padova, Italy)
curators
Massimiliano Cafagna, Giuseppe Resta, Maria Alessandra Rutigliano
location
on-line
graphic design
Francesco Delrosso, Antonio Lionetti
The historical grain elevator in the port of Barletta (Italy) has been demolished: this is the outcome of a long debate that involved municipality, citizens and practitioners. Such a process is inevitably a part of those transformations of the urban fabric marking one irreversible turning point. Cities cannot escape the process of transformation without drama. For this reason, the demolition of the historical grain elevator in the port of Barletta, which will clear an area of 2000sqm, is an issue that needs a new critical understanding.
Being inevitably attached to the identity of the city, though apparently unrelated to its context, we felt the need not to let the memory of such architecture fall into oblivion. For years, the grain elevator contributed to the social and economic growth of Barletta, becoming gradually a visual landmark of the city that one can recognize from the sea due to its peculiar silhouette.
For this reason, we have invited artists, architects, graphic designers, collectives, architectural firms, and writers, to take part in this second chapter dedicated to the demolished grain elevator of the port of Barletta. The second chapter will tackle the complex theme of the contextual transformation in contemporary cities. In this case, the vantage point will be flipped, investigating the silos not as an objet trouvé grounded on the mainland, but as a landing place welcoming those who come from the sea. The first chapter of this research on the silos took place on 20 June 2020, with the online exhibition event NUDGE 1.0: the architecture of choices.
The new exhibition event, “NUDGE 2.0”, will be curated by architects Massimiliano Cafagna, Giuseppe Resta, and M. Alessandra Rutigliano, with the support of graphic designer Francesco Del Rosso and Antonio Lionetti. NUDGE 2.0 will open the debate on the relationship between architecture, time and urban changes, inviting new visions on a building that, for years, imposed its bulky mass against the horizon line. We need to consider heritage with fresh eyes, as Gilles Clément maintained, “observing a known place that turns to abandonment provokes questions that are all investigating a dynamic of the transformation”
