Ricerc@Sapienza

For many architects, who attribute to memory a fundamental role in their creative process, Rome and its multiple spatiality have been and continue to be extraordinary sources of inspiration.
Its ruins, expression of the fragment and unfinished condition, have been used as a bare architecture, pluging in a new building, or as a layer on which build up the following one. Their building systems and urban role have attracted architects from different eras.
Its Renaissance buildings show how architects have been able to adapt the principles of symmetry to the irregularity of the sites, generating exciting new solutions.
Thereafter, the baroque architects change the relationships between architecture and urban space and create innovative devices for shape the light.
This great repertory of space, intervention strategies, architectural themes that Rome offers, is used by many modern and contemporary architectes that, starting from their experience of those places, have studied them and reuse, reinterpreting them in their projects.
Among them, the intervention aims to deal with two Italian architects: Alessandro Anselmi (1934-2013) and Francesco Venezia (1944). Both have selected from this extensive repertory buildings and places, that, captivated by their memory, could emerge later, providing strategies and meanings to their projects.