Stefano Boeri
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Encounter and surprise, the concept of “piazza” will represent Italy at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair

A place of identity par excellence, the concept of the piazza will inspire the Studio Boeri's team to represent Italy's presence in Frankfurt in 2024.
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    The leitmotif of the Italian presence at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2024 will be the piazza, a symbol of urban planning but also of the Italian society. 'As one of Italy's most identifiable places and spaces,' comments the architect Stefano Boeri, who has been entrusted with the design of the Italian pavilion, 'we are thinking about the piazza in Italy's historical centres for the development of the Italian pavilion’.

    ‘A place’, continues Boeri, 'of relationships and encounters, generous for the activities that take place there and also unpredictable for what could happen there'. It is therefore ideal to take the visitor on a discovery of new Italian publications and more broadly of the Italian culture as a whole. A place in which the past - the “roots” - and the future cohabit to surprise the visitor and invite him to discover and experience the Italy of yesterday and that of tomorrow.

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