"Lampentouza, O Kathedrikos naòs tou Solomonta: Renato Rizzi", La Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italia = "Lampedusa, The Cathedral of Solomon: Renato Rizzi", La Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT

The project formulates the human tragedy in thought and then in
architectural space, which brings into play again the whole European
cultural tradition by means of three concepts which are fundamental
to architecture: the work, the place, people. Three givens which today
have been destroyed by the dissolution of form, by de-territorialisation,
and de-personalisation. The Cathedral of Solomon is the opposite of the idea we normally
have of a church. It is not a grand architectural mass, but a grand
hollow. The island of Lampedusa itself becomes architecture. Its
interior is emptied and its rocky body opens up to receive the boatloads
of refugees arriving from Africa. A gigantic ark of salvation, in
lonely awaiting, in the Mediterranean.