UCCELLACCIO
UCCELLACCIO is the photographic essay presented by Fosbury Architecture on the occasion of the exhibition and catalog Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else. for the 18. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura La Biennale di Venezia.
UCCELLACCIO documents a cross-section of the contemporary Italian landscape, an unfinished architecture located in a little village of the Abruzzo hinterland that, like many smaller municipalities in central Italy, suffers from severe depopulation and major emigration. The title of the project owes its name to the way the inhabitants define the unfinished building, which dominates the town in therms of size and geographical position, and which in the local imagination has become a monument in reverse. The population has always harbored a hostile sentiment towards the unfinished building; in fact, the idea of a cursed work recurs, referred to as a bird of ill omen (uccellaccio, in Italian).its plan from above actually resembles a primordial bird.The photographic project explores the marginality of this village and the evocative power of the unfinished building that dominates it, seeking to return a fresh look at the landscape and at an architecture that is more than ever integrated into the landscape that hosts it.