PRAYER, Camillo Langone

PRAYER, CAMILLO LANGONE
Camillo Langone, writer and journalist of Il Foglio, is a lover of wine and food, Masses (plural of Mass) and traditions, women and architecture - the order is not necessarily hierarchical-in short, of the beauty of life. I do not know him personally, but he let me to publish his post as Prayer, heading daily, dedicated to the identity of our cities. Thanks Pietro Pagliardini
Website Camillo Langone: http://www.camillolangone.it/

Prayer, Camillo Langone – Il Foglio Wednesday March 5, 2008
God blind those whom he want to condemn: why quite the italian mayors?You might not dazzle the mayors of Burkina Faso, where a lot I will not go never?City Brands Index 2008 has decreed that the most recognizable city of the world is Sydney.Year after year the Italian cities disclaim towards unrecognizableness, only Rome holds on(thanks to San Pietro and the Coliseum, despite Richard Meier).Obvious, not there is an our mayor who has opened the eyes on the concept of "site specific".).In Milan call Libeskind to build a skyscraper that makes it similar to Busan, South Korea.In Reggio Emilia are proud of Calatrava with his serial bridge that fits to Argentina and Wisconsin. In Salerno the new Chipperfield court of justice gives me the shivers, formed by the same parallelepipeds that the English architect has placed in Anchorage, Alaska.With great public expenditure the Italian cities disguise themselves, try to avoid the identity, as those who have committed a crime, those who want to be forgotten.