From Sept. 5, start at 5:30 p.m., and until Oct. 31, the Civic Museum of the Ursino Castle in Catania will host an exhibition that has already met with considerable public and critical success in Milan and now lands in the hometown of one of the two authors, architect and urban planner Giancarlo Leone, among the heirs of one of the most illustrious families of Italian Urbanism.
With him in this original exhibition is writer, designer and curator Stefano Casciani.
"For some years now," Leone explains, "in parallel with my work as an Architect, I have been carrying out research on how Architecture is reflected in the waters of urban contexts. A research that starts from the study of the Cities, investigating, at the right speed, the ?urban voids? and the ?silence? that furnishes them: factors that are disappearing, giving way to an urban disorder that is poorly combined with the quality of Life. The streets of our cities have indeed become aseptic corridors of visual dullness in which speed exceeds the limit of respect; and the few remaining urban voids are filled, but not designed. And missing, more and more, is that tray of thoughts on which the ?silence? of a Collectivity was served ....... So, The City On The Water, I consider it an urbanistic compendium in which the reflection is the Architecture of Life.
