Open Land City. Città in Terra Aperta. 11 Projects of Spread-Agrifront in the Lowland of Lombardy. 11 Progetti di Agrifront Diffusi nella Pianura Lombarda

The Po Plain presents an almost completely horizontal configuration: an indefinite green sea signed by wings and urban fronts originated by large farmhouses, more and more often converted into residential buildings for people fond of agricivism.
Spread-agrifronts will become the new land harbours, scattered in the ambiguous and indefinite territory of contemporary cities, to welcome new populations of permanent travellers looking for relax and ancient cultural values connected to life in contact with land and nature, wise queen of equilibrate life cycles.
Urban gardens and their leading role, both in sociological and aesthetical terms, grant the opportunity of poetically reconfiguring the rural territory, describing a new possible urban world, contaminated by the archaic signs of agricultural activity.

Olivia Longo graduated in Architecture in 1996 and she received in 2004 her PhD title in Architectural design. She takes part and coordinates national and international research programs, exhibitions, workshops and seminars, and she is teacher in Summer Schools. From 2005 to 2010 she was researcher in Architectural and urban composition at the University of Architecture of Palermo. In 2010 she coordinated a summer workshop at IUAV of Venice. Since 2010 she is researcher in Architectural and urban composition at the University of the Studies of Brescia, where she is lecturer of the course Architecture and architectural composition 1 + Laboratory. Since 1996 she takes part in many design competitions, winning awards and mentions.