Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
An update to “The Bridge That Never Was: Messina’s Endless Promise”When I wrote about the bridge across the Strait of Messina in August 2025, my concern was less whether the bridge could technically be built than what kind of idea of progress it represented. The project seemed caught between two identities: infrastructure intended to connect …
Weiterlesen "Messina Revisited: When the Record Becomes the Project"
Few projects embody the paradox of Italian infrastructure like the bridge over the Strait of Messina. Announced, inaugurated, suspended, and revived in endless cycles, the bridge has become less a piece of engineering than a political allegory—resurfacing whenever governments need a symbol of ambition, only to vanish again in the fog of indecision.The idea is …
Weiterlesen "The Bridge That Never Was: Messina’s Endless Promise"
