Corviale, The Snake
Corviale is a 1 km long housing complex built in the 70ies in the periphery of Rome, Italy. The building was planned for 9,000 tenants, based on the idea of social housing according to Le Corbusier. Today it is seen as a ghetto with high rates of unemployment, criminality and drug abuse. The video addresses the failure of the utopian modernist architecture through the accounts of its inhabitants.
(H. H.)
Corviale is a 1 km long housing complex in the periphery of Rome. The building was commissioned in 1972 by the IACP (Institute for social housing) to a group of...
Orig. Title
Corviale, Il Serpentone
Corviale, Il Serpentone
Year
2001
2001
Countries
Austria, Italy
Austria, Italy
Duration
34 min
34 min