Dove va l’architettura? Un dibattito e una rubrica fra le pagine dei quotidiani

Since 1948, after a long debate and many requests to different Italian newspapers, the architect Giulio Minoletti finally obtains, in the pages of Il Popolo, a space for a column entitled with the rhetorical question: “Where is architecture going?” A small space, initially less than half a page, where each issue features a ‘chronicle’ of a Milanese building under construction or reconstruction. The indispensable elements: the photographic image, the name of the project architect, the location in the city, and a reasoned description, with a more or less subjective critical judgment, of the considered building. The objectives: to give a ‘public’ space also to architectural criticism, to present itself as an opportunity for dialogue with the public and to bring it closer to the theme of modern architecture, as a civil fact. Starting from the debate that preceded it and through some examples of ‘chronicles’, the intervention will have the aim of tracing the path of the column and its innovative spirit from its origins to developments in the following years.