In the Triveneto area as in the rest of Italy, the demand for culture and the participation in cultural events are increasing despite economic crisis and the reduction of public fundings. This is the conclusion emerging from the VII Annual Federculture Report, a volume titled “La cultura serve (...)

The exhibition is open from 2 April to 15 May. Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Loredan Palace, Campo Santo Stefano – Venice. “I’m an old Veneto’s fanatic”. That is what Ernest Hemingway wrote in a letter to Bernard Berenson in 1948 expressing all his affection for Veneto. His love started (...)

The 20th century was characterised by big cities, metropolises and gross stadt. On the threshold of 1900, Webber wrote the important study “The Growth of Great Cities” on the phenomenon striking the world at the time: the gigantism of the cities. For almost all the 20th century, this phenomenon (...)

Paraphrasing Simmel, […] the connection between all elements constituting a modern city has to be based on the project of an urban landscape that should not be originated by the chance redevelopment of existing landscapes; these situations, indeed, are regulated by technical rules that are often (...)

The Fondazione di Venezia decided to entrust the architectural planning of M9 to the winner of a competition, entirely of its own volition and without any particular law obliging this, in the conviction that the best solution for how to give Mestre back an important and central urban area might (...)

Worldwide any reading of the city of Venice is, almost by definition, confined to the perimeter of the historic city: the palaces, bridges, bell towers, public areas and private spaces are noted and praised, the more than forty wonderful museums are visited and the world knows about the (...)

On May the first the pavilion Venice has built for the 2010 Shanghai Expo has officially opened. The exhibition space in the UBPA section of the expo is about 500 square meters and is placed in a central position in the B1 pavilion, close to the city of Liverpool, Cairo, Suzhou, Hagzhou and (...)

Extremely famous, award-winner, praised to the skies…all this when he was still alive. Felice Carena (1879-1966) was born in the Piedmont and later moved to Rome. He arrived in Venice right after the war. The city mobilized to receive him. In a note found in Guido Cadorin’s autobiographical (...)