"FACECITY" by Fulvio Irace at Venice Biennale

"Facecity" is the contribution to the Venice Biennale 2012 by C + S Architects whose idea is carried out by hand by Fulvio Irace. The exhibition reconsiders Milan architecture of the 50s and 60s, where architects from different generations and with different positions, built the city's identity without renouncing its poetic staff.

The central topic of this thought is the facade, commented by Alberto Savinio in Ascolto il tuo cuore città, 1945:

” …On the facade of buildings is not only written their date of birth, but also written the moods, the manners, the most secret thoughts of their time…, together with the flat window, theorized by Gio Ponti as the way to shape modernity.”

Rooted on these elements, a 15 meter long, textured wall in the pavilion houses the Facescroll, a work where the photographer Pino Musi assembled 21 Milanese buildings reduced to facade details as if they were a musical partition.

On the opposite side are the original drawings of those buildings by Gio Ponti, Magistretti, Asnago and Vender and others.

In the middle a horizontal screen, an iPad, like a translation of the window in contemporary (from the position of vertical and fixed to that of horizontal and moving) shows the videos of Francesca Molteni interviewing Carlo Cappai, Vincenzo Latina, Renzo Piano, Maria Alessandra Segantini and Attilio Stocchi, who explain their idea of continuity.