The open and organic architecture of the parish marks a contrast with the heavy and compact center of the city with a radially undulating roof that reinterprets the archetypal form of Romanesque and Gothic aisles through nature.
The setting for the exhibition ‘Italian Lexicon: Stories and Faces of Our Country’ features structures of unfinished air combining arches, vaults, and exedras, returning to the architectural language of classical Rome to establish a dialogue with the
In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto ‘Architecture, Archaeology and Art’, firms like those led by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza, Benedetta Tagliabue or Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas to design the new metropolitan line.
Outside the ideal city that the architect and urbanist Biagio Rossetti built for Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in Renaissance times, the Church and Parish of San Giacomo contrasts its organic contour and open form against the compact and rigid natu
