Incomplete City / Italy
Research and Exhibition
2017

The Incomplete City is not a singular place; it refers to a web of incomplete structures that dot cities around the world. In the wake of the global economic crisis, the question arises: what can be done about this urban phenomenon of half-finished visions? 

In Italy alone, there are over six hundred of these structures, some of which have been vacant for nearly thirty years. From Rome to Milan to Sicily, Italy’s Incomplete City was documented extensively, in both videos and photographs, before being exhibited at the American Academy in Rome. The deeper the Incomplete City was researched; the more questions were raised: What does it mean for architecture to be complete? Is architecture ever be truly complete when sites, programs and their climate are never static? Can designing for the incomplete become a final architectural act?