For the enhancement of its Roman theater, Brescia relies on David Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize 2023

British architect David Chipperfield (London, 1953) will be in charge of the performance of design services related to the development of the outline project (preparatory to the technical and economic feasibility project) as part of theintervention to enhance the Roman theater of Brescia and the northern body of Palazzo Maggi Gambara, for the purpose of its redevelopment and reuse. Announcing early this afternoon the assignment to David Chipperfield, owner of Milan-based David Chipperfield Architects, given to him by Fondazione Brescia Musei were jointly the Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and the Brescia Chamber of Commerce. A logical continuation that comes at the end of five years of intense re-interpretation of the archaeological context of Brixia. Archaeological Park of Roman Brescia, which have seen the new museification of the Winged Victory redesigned by architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg and the recent completion and opening to the public of the UNESCO Corridor, a 2,500-year-long monumental walkway connecting the Capitolium area to the monumental complex of Santa Giulia.

The enhancement of the Roman theater and the northern body of Palazzo Maggi Gambara is therefore in line with an architectural-functional vision that the Municipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei desire for this important archaeological context: a vision of a possible future developed in a way that is compatible with the pursuit of the exhibition and museum purposes already offered in the area and, at the same time, with a new use of the space available to citizens, with a view to making more broader the city’s offer for outdoor entertainment in the ancient context, philologically in line with the original function, and contemporary, in the wake of an ongoing national and international trend for the reuse of ancient spaces.

The strategic nature of this intervention, not only for the development of a project of an artistic and cultural nature, but also for the transformation in a perspective of greater receptivity and attractiveness of the city, including as a tourist destination for major events, is manifested by the involvement, from the very early stages, of the Brescia Chamber of Commerce Industry, Crafts and Agriculture, which, in October 2023, signed an agreement with Fondazione Brescia Musei to sponsor and co-finance the design phases.

The decision to entrust the task to architect David Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize 2023, was also due to convictions on the part of the promoters that matured during the study day held in the Santa Giulia complex on April 4, 2022 entitled The Future of the Roman Theater. In fact, the graphic and architectural drawings produced by David Chipperfield Architects, with their general and technical reports, will form the working basis for the next stages of development of the Technical-Economic Feasibility Plan (PFTE) of the intervention, to which Chipperfield will be able to give a contemporary and international vision. This contribution will also be supported by experts from the offices of the Municipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei and by discussions with the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio of the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia.

For the enhancement of its Roman theater, Brescia relies on David Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize 2023

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