Open House Roma is back on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May, the event that opens 200 buildings to the public this yearoffers dedicated events and organizes forty free tours to discover the architecture of the city, from those that have made history to those linked to contemporary living.
Now in its tenth edition, Open House Rome aims to organize an extraordinary event this year: e “Extraordinary” is, not surprisingly, also the title chosen for this 2022, for an appointment that has now become traditional and which, over the years, has contributed not a little to the knowledge of the places and to the sharing of apparently different knowledge and experiences, in a growth path that is celebrated by a very rich program, with the buildings of the Eur (those that should have hosted the Roman Universal Exposition of 1942 if the war had not broken out) and the Atac remittances still used today by public transport, the artist’s houses (you enter Alberto Moravia’s apartment) e social housing projects, the central and peripheral districts of the city. Everywhere, the same desire to discover and tell the city from a different point of view, once again.
“The variety of opportunities for discovery, the plural and collective narrative of the city has always been one of the strengths of the Open House Roma program” underlines Gaia Maria Lombardo, the program manager of the event “for this special edition we wanted to offer to the public that has been following the initiative for years some insights, stories made up of episodes which, while having meaning in themselves, acquire greater value in being told together”. And it is precisely from this need that we have identified some themes that link the different places of the city into broader categories: they range from the enhancement of Ostia, the town hall of the city that reaches the sea and which even preserves an architecture by Michelangelo, to that of the villages which, in the 1930s, were born to give new housing to a city that saw the number of inhabitants dramatically increase at the time.
Particular attention is then dedicated to people with disabilities: a project – born to continue also in 2023 – is in fact designed to promote accessibility to the city heritage even by those with visual and hearing disabilities, to allow everyone to discover the architecture through the other senses.
Source: Vanity Fair