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Fotografia di Gianluca Di Ioia/Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia

ARCHIBOTTIUS, THE INSTALLATION OF VINCENZO LATINA
ON EXHIBITION AT LA TRIENNALE DI MILANO
Arch. Vincenzo Latina has interpreted the theme of the use of local materials in post-catastrophe reconstructions,
as part of the Exhibition RECONSTRUCTIONS, opened in November 2018 at La Triennale di Milano.
ArchiBottius, made in Botticino Classico and produced by our Consortium, tries to interpret symbolically, through
the use of a valuable building and coating material, the Botticino Classico Marble, the synthesis of some millennial
events that partly characterized the ancient, modern and contemporary architecture.
In some cases such architectures, from the 5th century BC onwards, became fundamental in the construction of
the ancient city, its streets, factories and monuments, as it happened for the ancient Roman Brixia.
The contemporary Brescia is the result of millennial events that have seen constant reconstructions over the
centuries due to wars, calamities and extraordinary rebirths.
These works, of construction and reconstruction, are found both in some buildings of Brescia, among all the
Capitolium, and in other cities, not only Italian, characterized by some important architectures and monuments
that have strongly defined the shape and the urban structure of the cities.
The installation is a pretext to represent symbolically the architecture of cities imagined as the sum of palimpsests,
of continuous transcriptions and reconstructions in which the ancient is contemporary and vice versa.
ArchiBottius is the formal synthesis that recomposes an imaginary portal, a profane “tabernacle”, a system
configured by an essential reconstruction. 23