FUNDAMENTA

The exhibition Fundamenta by Aldo Amoretti, winner of several international architectural photography competitions and, on multiple occasions, of the Architizer A+Awards, stages his interpretation of architecture as immersed in the context of which it is part. On the one hand, architecture is caught within a congeries of heteronomous factors and relationships that shape the project from its earliest conception; on the other, it is itself capable of impacting, often decisively, on the landscape. This mutual relationship, documented with personal insight and great sensitivity in Amoretti’s photographs, lies at the centre of an exhibition that simultaneously reaffirms attention to certain core aspects of building. The selection of images is conceived not as a catalogue of exempla, but as the staging of the outcome of that “visual acoustics” through which the author has interrogated a number of pivotal questions in architectural design. The exhibition is structured as nine pairs of photographs of works by architects such as Zumthor, Kollhoff, Pawson, and Märkli, each pair intended to give form to one of the nine themes identified as the foundations of architecture. The images within each pair are conceived to enter into dialogue with one another and, in some cases, into a kind of “argument”: an invitation to attentive looking and to personal critical reflection, prompting viewers, in turn, to take part in that silent conversation in images. These are the nine themes: LOCUS HISTORIA TEMPUS GEOMETRIA LUX MATERIA SOLUM LIMES HORIZON On these themes, nine authoritative figures in contemporary architectural culture, not only Italian, were invited to offer their perspective: Franco Purini, Uwe Schröder, José Ignacio Linazasoro, Agostino De Rosa, Carlo Moccia, Dina Nencini, Valter Scelsi, Renato Capozzi, Carmine Piscopo. Each of them was thus asked to present, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, a critical text on one of the nine proposed themes, sharing with the public their knowledge and the depth of their thought.