When self-referentiality (often inevitable) gives way to storytelling, when a project remains just that even if you didn’t win the competition, when the word sustainability is never mentioned because it is taken for granted: all this and much more can be found in the exhibition that the Italian-Spanish studio (in terms of the extensive experience of its principals, not its age) MAB Arquitectura has created in the Spazio Theatro in Via Vigevano 27, open until 2 November.
Models, writings and stories convey the beautiful (paradoxical?) sense of emptiness that architecture can give to citizens, with buildings or intentions ranging from affluent neighbourhoods to social housing, without compromising, regardless of budget, for a final goal that always rewards the city and its neighbourhoods.
But that’s not all: Floriana Marotta and Massimo Basile (Sicilians through and through) wanted to enrich the representation of 20 years of projects by involving the artist Federico Babina, who created “Architettura in dodici atti” (Architecture in Twelve Acts), a series of graphic tables inspired by the same number of projects by the Studio and which, like a “Via Architecturae”, accompany visitors on their journey.
An interesting and harmonious enrichment that involves the world of art and brings it closer (and vice versa) to that of architectural design, helping to give further meaning to the void.
Because, now it is even more evident, the void is officially full.
‘Positive and Negative’ by MAB Arquitectura
At Spazio Theatro
Milan, Via Vigevano 27
From 27 October to 2 November
