BIO
Born and raised in Rome long time ago.
In 2003 I graduated from "La Sapienza" as an architect. My master thesis though happened to be a photography book.
In 2004 I worked at an old fashioned fine-art photolab in the basement. There were films, chemicals and old projectors.
In 2006 I moved to the Netherlands and tried to be a proper architect. It turned out that I started freelancing as an architectural photographer.
I looked around and worked hard. I explored and I sailed. I landed somewhere else and indulged for a while. Then I eventually got lost and it took me a while to find my way back home.
"So you walk on through the dark. Cause that's where the next morning is."
Bruce Springsteen
photography, wonder and cityscape
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the city that doesn't exist
the Eindhoven urban densification – part II Fellenoord
How can architectural and cityscape photography transcend its sensory physicality and portray an unknown, unbuilt urban scene?
Fellenoord is the name of the extensive city district that runs parallel to the railway tracks on the north side of Eindhoven Central Station. As an urban connector between north and south, for almost a century Fellenoord appears to have been a vibrantly populated neighbourhood – until the bombings of WWII and the following post-war reconstruction. The latter, in particular, has led to the inexorable eradication of almost all traces of the old urban fabric in the name of the four-wheeled modernity so coveted at the time.
In a kind of unintended attempt to repair history, this vast urban void will soon undergo a radical transformation, according to a massive development plan that envisages a densification from 500 to 15.000 inhabitants by 2040.
