Enrico Del Debbio's Foro Italico

The exhibition, through archival materials, recounts several chapters of the Carrara-born architect’s contribution to this long and complex project, which occupied him for over forty years (1926–1968).
Imprinting his visionary mark on the site, Del Debbio designed an architectural and landscape work in which the buildings would interact with the surrounding nature, and where marble—in its various structural or decorative uses—would play a central role in the development of a personal poetics, balanced between classicism and modernity.

The Enrico Del Debbio Archive, one of the first to enter the MAXXI Architecture Collection, documents the architect’s activity from 1909 to the 1970s, and in particular his most significant project: the Foro Italico complex.

The archival materials enter into dialogue with contemporary photographs by Begoña Zubero, specially created for the exhibition.