I went back to Milan Expo during the dismantling, some months
ago I had literally to fight to find a good position to shoot the
pavilions, now I walk alone in the empty Decumano. The site
seems to be a post atomic landscape; the metal devouring
machines and the giant saws suddenly interrupt the unnatural
silence and remind me the reason of my visit: document the last
phase of the Expo process.
Countries are committed to leave the plot as they received it, but
unfortunately many buildings are being destroyed and not
dismantled as the organization promised. Some pavilions have
evaporated, on the ground some sign of the foundations and mud;
others lie ripped, someone else seems to have been bombed, but
it stoically stands.
This serie aims to raise some questions not only on architecture
but also on our society and the meaning of this kind of events.
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