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Rome: Politics and Architecture
June 11, 2009
By Peter Kelly
In Rome, politics and architecture are always deeply interwoven. Yet as Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI, and other ambitious buildings, reach completion, Peter Kelly finds that the city’s architects have been thrown into deeper uncertainty by a radical change in administration.
Luca Galofaro, the 44-year-old founder of Rome-based architects IAN+ talks with dismay about running a practice in the Italian capital: ‘Projects in Rome just stop. For months… years at a time. The bureaucracy is crazy. You can’t hold on to staff for the duration of a project because for long periods there’s just not enough work to do.’
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