HOMES ON HOLD - Traces of Unfulfilled Dreams Benteli Publishing and Chambre Noire English - Italian Hardcover - Offset color 19 x 24 cm - 176 pages - 105 analog illustrations First edition January 2023 Signed copy CHF 40.- A visual reflection on the poetry of the uncompleted. At first glance, this book may seem to merely be a collection of the many unauthorized, unfinished and abandoned houses that very strikingly characterize the barren landscape of the Salento peninsula in southern Italy. They lend rhythm to the landscape, incorporating it and participating in its transformation. Upon closer look, these Homes on Hold provoke reflections that are addressed on an anthropological-cultural and socio-economic level in this book, via architecture and esthetics, as to the existential foundations of life plans and their fragility.
TEXTS Francesca Giofrè - Sapienza University of Rome, faculty of Architecture, Department Architettura and Design Fabio Quici - Sapienza University of Rome, faculty of Architecture, Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture Anna Bruna Menghini - Sapienza University of Rome, faculty of Architectural and Urban Design Mariangela Turchiarulo - Polytechnic University of Bari, faculty of Architectural and Urban Design