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The Lake of Venice A scenario for Venice and its lagoon by Lorenzo Fabian and Lodovico Centis Anteferma Edizioni, Venice, June 2022 |
14 settembre 2022
PRESS RELEASE
A new book on the Venice lagoon has been
published by Anteferma Edizioni,
a spin-off of Universitā
Iuav di Venezia.
Once again, in its long history, the Venice
lagoon needs profound rethinking in the light of the environmental crisis,
demographic decline, and the tourist pressure it is under.
“The Lake of Venice. A scenario for Venice and its lagoon”, by Lorenzo
Fabian and Lodovico Centis, stems from these urgencies, envisioning a scenario
for the lagoon in year 2100.
The Venice lagoon is a mutable space, in transition between land and water. It
is due to the constant work of modification and maintenance – from large
enterprises carried out by the Venetian Republic to widespread
micro-interventions by fishermen, millers, and farmers – that it has not
disappeared entirely. Its future will not only need to engage with current
strategies and schemes but with all the projects and ideas that have been
historically positioned there.
This book explores another possible lagoon based on a series of missed
projects and future hypotheses. Venice lagoons conceived and documented but
never completed or only partially realised offer the
opportunity to imagine or legitimise an alternative
future.
The current challenges – from the pressure of tourism, economic crises,
health emergencies, environmental degradation, and the risks associated with
climate change – are by no means unprecedented.
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Lorenzo Fabian is
an architect and urbanist. He is professor of urban planning at Universitā Iuav di Venezia, where
he is also a member of the teaching staff of the Doctoral School in
Architecture, City and Design.
Fabian deals with research and design on an urban and territorial scale with
particular attention to the themes of ecology, landscape, and sustainable
development of the city. He has taught at Politecnico
di Milano, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Parma, and Politecnico di Bari. Since 1998 and for about 20 years, he
has collaborated with Paola Viganō and Bernardo
Secchi on important projects and research in Italy and abroad.
Ludovico Centis is an architect, founder of
the architecture and planning office The Empire and co-founder and editor of the
architecture magazine San Rocco. Centis holds a PhD
in Urbanism from Universitā Iuav
di Venezia. His research focuses on how individuals and institutions, as well
as desires and power, shape cities and landscapes. Centis
has taught at Universitā Iuav
di Venezia, Politecnico di Milano and at the State
University of New York–University at Buffalo. Most recently, he was a
post-doctoral research fellow at Universitā Iuav di Venezia and has been a Visiting School Head at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture in London since 2020.
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