The Incompiuto Siciliano manifesto names unfinished public works in Italy since WWII as a distinct architectural style—concrete skeletons of stadiums, pools, and infrastructure left half-built. These structures stand as contemporary ruins, monuments of excess, corruption, and failed promises. The incompiuto turns error into style, incompletion into aesthetic. It reveals the political, economic, and cultural systems that produced it—public funding, exuberant ambition, collapse. At once tragic and magnetic, these ruins are both scars and sites of imagination. Iincompiuto raises questions about how to treat the unfinished: demolish, complete, or reframe as open projects. They are invitations to rethink ruin not only as past but as ongoing process—spaces where nature reclaims, and where contemplation of incompleteness becomes a form of design through an acknowledgement of low resolution.
HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale.
In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.
The production of landscape architecture projects has been in recent years outstanding, and our entire professional community has much to be proud of. But as always, there is a flip side; like in architecture or any design discipline of the globalised and speeding-up world, we are faced with a sea of sameness. Too many buildings […]
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