Location: Ponte di Nona, Tor Tre Teste
Ponte di Nona is a peripheral neighbourhood in the eastern part of Rome that clearly shows the results of recent public urban management. The neighbourhood is in fact one of the first in Rome to have been planned from scratch, according to a new type of convention between local authorities and constructors. With Tor tre Teste, it is one of the areas where the often contradictory endeavour to challenge today’s construction industry has crystallised. It is a collection of residential architectures entrusted to, at times, well-known architects featuring some decrepid but important attempts at monumental architecture.
Andrea Jemolo is an important Italian photographer of architecture. He has collaborated with some of the more significant architecture magazines, photographing the monumental works of the great modern and contemporary architects. Recently he has dedicated himself in particular to investigating the architecture of the Roman periphery with the creation of a “photographic bank” on residential architecture from the last twenty years in Rome.