After participating in Stratosferica’s Utopian Hours conference in Turin, Italy, last fall, where The Architect’s Newspaper was a media partner along with Monocle and Bloomberg, I had the chance to cross a site off my bucket list of architectural destinations. On an overcast Monday, I visited Ivrea, where the Olivetti campus is spread across the hills south of the town center. The company’s factory buildings and social programs are impressive but not widely known, though the complex did become a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. The citation is clear about the rationale for recognition: “Ivrea expresses a modern vision of the relationship between industrial production and architecture.”
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