Poliorcetics is the branch of military art that studies methods, technics and means for besieging cities and fortresses. It is an art that, like Architecture, transforms places into tools, actions, strategies, and implies a strong knowledge of subjects that go beyond the Art of War and include engineering, geology, anthropology and politics.
The idea of conquest, is not just linked to control, supremacy, and suppression, but also to fusion among cultures, like in the case of Alessandro Magno and the fusion of his Hellenic Reign with Indian peoples. With this theoretic background, the contemporary territory can be read as a juxtaposition of antithetical city models, and its form as the synthesis of different interpretive and modelling capacities typical of men and of their being-in-the-world.
More at Padiglione Venezia of the 15th Internation Biannale.
{photographs: Anna Ghiraldini}
