Southcorner: utopia and drawing

Abstract

The fortunate season of contemporary architecture lasted about twenty years, which will be interested in the city and the district of Agropoli in the province of Salerno. It blossomed in the first half of the 90s of the last century and reached its peak in 2007 with the exhibition: Modernity. Crisis and perspectives of public space (society, architectural languages, urban landscapes). On that occasion, ambitious projects on the vision of modernity, on its evolution/involution, converged from all over Italy, in the former municipal slaughterhouse (now demolished) of Agropoli. The exhibition was curated by the CEAM Center and the Southcorner team, headed by architects Antonio Cuono and Nella Tarantino, with Cesare De Sessa as the critical curator. Southcorner was born in 1994, following the collaboration of the architects with the late master of the Modern Movement Aldo Loris Rossi, whose teaching they still retain today. A corner down in the south of Italy from which they launched, almost futuristically, their challenge of renewing their territory, architecturally connoting it with artefacts of high expressive quality, constituting a significant page in the history of contemporary architecture that is still little appreciated and valued.