Not only a city that hosts Giovanni Michelucci 's last work (although still to be completed), the theater on the water designed when the master was almost one hundred years old , but a partner to all intents and purposes of the Foundation that bears his name and preserves the precious inheritance.
The Municipality of Olbia joins the board of directors alongside the other three symbolic places, Florence, Pistoia and Fiesole, and will be represented by the architect and university professor Vanni Maciocco . A choice that is strongly symbolic, of investment in culture, but not only, and among the projects in the running there is a memorandum of understanding that could lead to further funds to complete a theater that in Michelucci's vision was very impressive and which today it is one of the engines around which the great urban regeneration project of the southern districts of Olbia revolves.
The full entry into the Foundation was illustrated this morning in a press conference by the mayor Settimo Nizzi and the president Silvia Botti together with the director Andrea Alardi, the new councilor Vanni Maciocco and the municipal officials Gianna Masu and Stefania Giua.
«An important step for the city of Olbia – said Nizzi – which is perceived as not very cultured and dedicated to the ephemeral. We have worked and are working to make it the exact opposite. For us, becoming part of the Foundation is a source of great pride and we will continue to work so that the work is completed". An acknowledgment of the work of the Municipality came from Silvia Botti: «We have to thank the city because today it is not for everyone to invest in culture. Olbia not only hosts a work by Michelucci but strongly believes in its value ». Aleardi and Macciocco then focused on Michelucci's legacy and his conception of architecture and the city.
From the symbolic to the practical: a memorandum of understanding is at stake, which will be presented to the Ministry, and has the objective of completing the work (which also included a production centre) by drawing on European funds.
The theater, in its open-air part, the only one existing, is built on the drawings made by the Tuscan master between the end of 1989 and 1990. It was he himself who chose its location on the southern shore of the gulf which is today in the center of an impressive urban regeneration project. A fate that would have pleased Michelucci, advocate of an architecture fully integrated into the social fabric.