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The research project presented by Andrea Sarti and Claudia Faraone as part of the Monditalia section of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – the Venice Biennale is called L'Aquila's Post-Quake Landscapes (2009-2014).

The work is the provisional result of much wider research based on the observation and mapping of the territorial, architectural and social transformations that have affected L'Aquila following the 2009 earthquake and of the reconstruction works undertaken which have profoundly changed the landscape, provoking a fragmentation not only on a physical urban level (buildings and infrastructures) but also and above all on a social, economic and political level, transforming the inhabitants’ lifestyles. L'Aquila's Post-Quake Landscapes (2009-2014) is therefore a work that aims to critically stimulate reflections on the theme of reconstruction and planning, which Sarti and Faraone consider elements of the architectural debate that have not been sufficiently developed, particularly in Italy. “The disastrous earthquake on 6 April 2009 has caused an enormous fissure in the history of the city and its urban development,” explain Sarti and Faraone, “People didn’t consider how the city should have been reorganised as a whole while the extant city was in a post-emergency phase, nor did they think about how architecture and urban planning could have had a role in the reconstruction phase.”

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