Vitalità dell’architettura italiana 1946-2026

At MAXXI in Rome, Vitalità dell’architettura italiana 1946-2026 follows eighty years of Italian architecture through the life of the Republic. Curated by Pippo Ciorra and Elena Tinacci, the exhibition looks at ideas, projects, and visions that helped shape the present, while tracing how Italian architects have worked across changing political, cultural, and urban conditions.

The exhibition gathers voices from key figures working around the turn of the millennium, then moves toward recent projects by Italian architects in Italy and abroad. Its focus is broad but direct: the themes that gave Italian architecture its international presence, and the newer generation now carrying that language forward. Across the gallery, architecture reads as a civic practice, tied to institutions, cities, public space, and the ongoing question of how a country builds its future.