A Consideration on L’architettura nel nuovo millennio by Leonardo Benevolo

Taking the cue from a  recently  published essay devoted to Architecture in the new Millenium, the author compares Italian attitude in the last decades towards infrastructures as highways, railways, bridges, to the solutions offered in other countries. The semantic and architectural quality of these interventions in Italy has been more often than not neglected for bureaucratic and practical reasons, as well as for financial policies. Hence their heavy environmental impact. Taking Norman Foster’s bridge over the Tarn as an example, the author, General Director for Contemporary Art and Architecture, points to the need of qualified creativity and coherence for the engineering outputs  that mark Italian landscape.