Verona Architecture Photo Contest Celebrates 20 Years of Change

Is the house next door getting more beautiful? Then take a photo of it. If, on the other hand, it is a true architectural puzzle and you have never dared to tell anyone, take a photo of it anyway. You will have the chance to win two million lire, but more importantly, you can finally enjoy the satisfaction of publicly mocking the neighbor and the designer.

It comes from those for whom beauty is, or should be, a profession — the first photographic contest open to all featuring images of contemporary Verona, “From Carlo Scarpa to Today: Twenty Years of Architecture in Verona”. Named after the famous Venetian architect, who passed away in Tokyo in 1978, the initiative is organized by the Agav, the association of young Verona architects, with the patronage of the Verona Municipality’s cultural department and the Province Architects’ Order, in collaboration with the Castelvecchio Museum and the newspaper L’Arena. Its aim is to gather a broad collection of testimonies about the evolution of contemporary architecture in Verona and the surrounding province over the past twenty years.

Contest details

“It is meant to be a collection of images”, say Nicola Brunelli and Michel Cogo, organizers of the event, “created primarily by those who experience the city: the citizens who live in it and whom the buildings address”. The submitted photographs will be evaluated by a jury composed of architect Arrigo Rudi, psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli, photographers Enzo Bassotto and Walter Campara, Enzo Patacca from the Verona Photographic Circle, and the contest organizers, Brunelli and Cogo from the Agav.

Photographs must be sent by Thursday, November 2nd to Giuseppe Ottaviani, president of the Agav, at via San Giusto 2, 37131 Verona. The awards ceremony will take place on November 11th at the Verona Arsenal, in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition of the collected images, which will remain open until November 25th.