CORVIALE | Stefano Samá

On the outskirts of Rome stands Corviale, one kilometre long and eleven stories high. It’s construction was with the intention to relieve the city’s over crowded centre, the vision being a utopia with it’s own facilities and self-regulating community of 8,500 inhabitants. When the company responsible went bankrupt in 1982, however, construction ground to an incomplete halt, and though its rooms now stand occupied, the building brings with it great controversy. Local rumour claims that the Corviale is responsible for blocking the sea breeze, which had previously cooled the city in summer.

Stefano Samá tells the story of this brutalist failure. Comes with a postcard.


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A5
32 pages
Published by Uhm! Zines