Portrait of Sacripanti

In the last five years Allegra Martin deepened her little obsession for the work of Italian architect Maurizio Sacripanti, with a photographic survey defined by light and shape.

Allegra Martin, Sacripanti, Maccagno bridge-museum

Allegra Martin started depicting Maurizio Sacripanti’s architectures in 2012. She calls it “a little obsession” that draws back to her architectural college studies, that now turn into a photographic work on his buildings. Her intention was to photograph his projects linked to the idea of bridge – the school of Santarcangelo in Romagna, the Museum in Maccagno – for their structural component, and for their symbolic and formal meaning.

Allegra Martin, Sacripanti, Santarcangelo school in Romagna. Courtesy Viasaterna — **Top:** Allegra Martin, Sacripanti, Maccagno bridge-museum. **Above:** Allegra Martin, Sacripanti, Santarcangelo school in Romagna

A tireless, visionary, ironic architect, firmly committed to the inseparability of the arts, Sacripanti has always fascinated the photographer for his being an avantgard designer and a clear mind. Sacripanti as a “pontifex”: the bridge is a continuous reference behind the designer’ ideas of architecture.

Allegra Martin, Sacripanti, Santarcangelo school in Romagna

“Space in architecture is the representation of the decline of a relation: physically, between horizontal and vertical dimension, the dimensions of the human beings” (Maurizio Sacripanti).