The Church of SS. Demetrio e Bonifacio in Naples hosted "Resonances," an exhibition curated by Alberto Calderoni, featuring the work of the Barozzi Veiga architecture firm.
The exhibition—promoted by the DiARC Department of Architecture at Federico II University—presents a selection of projects by the firm directed by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga in Barcelona, ​​winners of the Mies van der Rohe Award, such as the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, and the Tanzhaus in Zurich. These contemporary architectures in Europe are concerned with questioning and interpreting existing landscapes, contexts, works, and buildings, in order to regenerate them in a broad sense, seeking to project them into the future by enhancing existing conditions. These architectures explore the relationship between landscape, context, and regeneration.
"Every architectural work by Barozzi Veiga," explains Alberto Calderoni, "is born out of a relationship with the land that supports it, with the memory that precedes it, with the material and immaterial reality that surrounds it. In their work, this relationship never translates into a mimetic gesture or self-referential fractures: far removed from any rhetoric, Barozzi Veiga understands the project as a gesture of mediation, a way to inhabit that subtle space that separates what exists from what is yet to come. In this gap, always fragile and open, the project becomes an exercise in balance, never resolved once and for all. Each of their architectures arises from this state of listening and measurement: the buildings do not impose, but clarify, translating into spaces for inhabiting what in their contexts were present only as potential, as materials still waiting to be grasped."