A curious look at South Tyrol through art. The third edition of the exhibition "Recent Architecture in South Tyrol" from 29 September to 13 January next year aims to shine the spotlight on 38 projects that document the architectural horizon developed in South Tyrol over the last six years.
After the first two editions that took place in 2006 and 2012, a third was created that was able to describe the evolution of the artistic horizon that emerges from the Val Venosta in the west to the Val Pusteria in the east and the projects chosen for the review were selected by an international jury composed of Roman Hollenstein, architecture critic and former editor of the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Marco Mulazzani, architecture historian at the University of Ferrara and editor of Casabella, and the Viennese architect Marta Schreieck of the studio Henke Schreieck Architects.
The three members of the jury first selected 80 buildings, among over 240 projects, which they considered particularly important; therefore, after a site visit to the structures, the 38 that will be exhibited were chosen for sensitivity, delicacy, exceptionality or for particular contemporaneity, to which another 26 will be added that will be published in the catalogue.
The exhibition and catalog are the result of a collaboration between Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, the Südtiroler Künstlerbund and the Alto Adige/Südtirol Architecture Foundation.
In Bolzano the new architectural scene proposes numerous urban projects: social services such as the center for psychiatric rehabilitation, the expansion of areas of the city involving infrastructures such as the railway station, churches, schools or sports facilities along the Talvera. An art collector's villa with a panoramic view of Bolzano is a house-sculpture inserted into the hill, for the use of his family and his vast collection.
Furthermore, there are social housing buildings in the Oltradige areas, with examples in Cornaiano and Appiano, which for their requirements place themselves in dialogue with the population density and the suggestive surrounding landscape.
Among other representations, in Val Pusteria in a hamlet of 30 souls, a carpentry shop demonstrates how a small 100-year-old family business can transform a small shed in the craft area into one of the most beautiful and perhaps inspiring showrooms that a South Tyrolean craft company have remodeled so far.
