A LANDSCAPE OF CONTRADICTION. Connecting nature and industry with a refuge in the Apuan Alps.
Robert Kane (supervisor prof. G. Ridolfi)
W24 A LANDSCAPE OF CONTRADICTION
The landscape of the Apuan Alps tends to disorient first-time visitors, its graceful mountain peaks sharing space with open-pit marble quarries, from which white blocks flow in a steady stream to the cutting and shipping facilities on the coast. Only a schizophrenic culture could permit both of these opposing conditions to exist simultaneously, with hundreds of quarries op¬erating within meters of environments that are protected from any form of human use.