Olbia, ribbon cutting of the exhibition “Giovanni Maciocco. Inhabiting the territory"

There are the Mediterranean arboretum of Limbara, the paleobotanical park of Anglona, the headquarters of the architecture school of the University of Alghero, the cruise station of Porto Torres, the house in via Giacomo Pala in Olbia (presented at the Venice Biennale in 1996) and the Archaeological Museum of Olbia where the exhibition “Giovanni Maciocco. Inhabiting the territory”.

Fifty-five large panels, set up with a sea view, a catalog with essays by teachers, engineers and experts, and four albums of fifty pages each to tell the story of over half a century of the work of the Gallura designer, urban planner and university professor, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by IN/ ARCH Sardinia and Ance Sardinia. First stop of a traveling exhibition, at the ribbon cutting in the Eastern Hall of the Olbia museum, where it will be open until 30 June, the president of the Region, Alessandra Todde, the vice-president, Giuseppe Meloni, the councilor for urban planning, Francesco Spanedda, the mayor of Olbia, Settimo Nizzi, the president of the Sardinia section of the National Institute of Architecture, Andrea Casciu, and the president of Ance Sardegna, Pierpaolo Tilocca.

«I know Professor Maciocco through his students, I got the best prices in the Region, and the results of his teachings can be seen above all in the human dimension and I also appreciate him because he has projects for the internal areas of the Island whose valorization I am always interested in », said the governor. «This exhibition is important because it takes us back to the story of a fundamental figure for our city and for our island and who had the courage and drive to make our region grow from a cultural point of view also with the establishment of the faculty of Architecture in Alghero", added Nizzi. The exhibition is a journey between theory, project and Maciocco's teaching, an aspect dearest to him: «I always think of being a teacher because I need to enter into the meaning of things: the project has the aim of training students students, it is a tool for communicating with them."

Among the works on display, there are also the works of the first year students of the Alghero School of Architecture, where Giovanni Maciocco continues to teach (at 77 years old) as professor emeritus. «The intent of the exhibition is to contribute to the promotion and diffusion of good architecture in our Region with the ultimate aim of improving the quality of life of the people for whom, ultimately, architectural production is intended», explained Casciu and Tilocca, specifying that the jury rewarded the Gallura architect for his ability to conceive and create quality contemporary architecture works, rooted in the territory and in the lives of the people who live there.