Architects:Archiplanstudio

Area :2500 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Giuseppe Gradella

Clients : Municipality of Mantova

City : Mantua

Country : Italy

A historical reading tells us how Piazza Leon Battista Alberti was defined in its current configuration only at the beginning of the 20th century. Before that period it was never a square; the open space was used as a courtyard or a monastic cloister. The latest demolitions that have taken place have defined the urban void by deforming the space towards the northwest by removing the regularity of the shape of the square as it appears in the maps of 1935.