Piranesi Prix De Rome. Progetti per la Nuova Via dei Fori Imperiali

In this book are presented the participant projects to the International Call for the design and the requalification of Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, promoted and organized by the Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia Onlus, in collaboration with the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscaper and Conservationists of Rome.
The book is structured in two sections. The first one presents a series of speeches by senior managers of the institutions who have confronted the complexity of the issue, and continue to do so daily. To follow, some essays by academics and researchers that reflect on the historical, cultural and planning events of Via dei Fori Imperiali, and that arise questions on the meaning and the outcome of not only about the events of the last twenty years, but also on future hypotheses of this extraordinary archaeological area, characterised by a road axis that is an integral part of the image of the Capital.
The second section is devoted to the eighteen competing projects, as well as the one developed in parallel by the curators of the Call for research purposes and for the accommodation of knowledge gained in two decades of work at the school.
The rules for participation, based on the high level required for the formation of groups, organised according to a pair of coordinators, one from the academic world and the other from the professional world, is an unprecedented experiment. The result is an important work built on the debate between different knowledges, that led the parties involved non only to harmonize different approaches but also to reason, according to different points of view, on the outcome of the investigations and their transformation into a design dissertation.