INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style is the first and only study – the result of ten years of eldwork – of a phenomenon frequently discussed in our country and yet still not fully acknowledged: the nationwide presence of buildings and infrastructures of which the implementation has never been completed.
The scope of this phenomenon, its spread across the territory and its incredible architectural peculiarities together make the Incompiuto the most prominent Italian architectural style since WWII. At least this is the thesis proposed – in a provocative yet faultless manner – by the workgroup of individuals who over recent years have put together thousands of images, sifting through hundreds of reported exemplars throughout the nation, starting out from Sicily before making their way up the peninsula.
INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid our contemporary ruins.

INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style is the first and only study – the result of ten years of fieldwork – of a phenomenon frequently discussed in our country and yet still not fully acknowledged: the nationwide presence of buildings and infrastructures of which the implementation has never been completed.

The scope of this phenomenon, its spread across the territory and its incredible architectural peculiarities together make the ‘Incompiuto’ (Unackomplished) the most prominent Italian architectural style since WWII. At least this is the thesis proposed – in a provocative yet faultless manner – by the workgroup of individuals who over recent years have put together thousands of images, sifting through hundreds of reported exemplars throughout the nation, starting out from Sicily before making their way up the peninsula. "INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style" accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid our contemporary ruins.

Questo libro è la prima e unica indagine, frutto di dieci anni di ricerca sul campo, di un fenomeno molto discusso in Italia, ma non ancora completamente riconosciuto: la presenza massiccia sul territorio di edifici e infrastrutture la cui realizzazione non si è mai conclusa. La dimensione del fenomeno, l’estensione territoriale e le incredibili peculiarità architettoniche fanno dell’Incompiuto il più importante stile architettonico italiano dal dopoguerra a oggi. Questa è la tesi che sostiene, in modo provocatorio ma ineccepibile, il gruppo di lavoro che in questi anni ha raccolto migliaia di scatti, ha vagliato centinaio di segnalazioni su tutto il territorio nazionale, a partire dalla Sicilia, per poi risalire la penisola. “L’Incompiuto. La nascita di uno stile” accompagna il lettore in un moderno Grand Tour, tra le rovine contemporanee.