A gallery that will shine a new light on the ordinary of architecture: a dimension of the city often overlooked.

Gabriele Basilico is one of the most famous Italian photographers, surely the only that participated to “La Mission photographique de la Datar” (a photographic mission wanted by the French Governement to document the transformation of the Transalpine Area).

Gabriele Basilico’s pictures communicate a tension between the tranquil and domestic aura filling his pictures, opposed to the special nature of the subject, light or moment.

A “measurer of space”, that’s how he defined himself.

After studying architecture, he dedicated himself to photography, especially landscape and architectural photography. He reached international fame in 1982 with “Ritratti di Fabbriche”, a report on the industrial areas of Milan; in 1991, with “Beirut” he described the effects of a war on the city.

His last work, a portrait of Porta Nuova Project from its very beginning, was presented il 2012 in occasion of the inauguration of the new Gae Auenti square, in Milan.

Gabriele Basilico’s work is an important benchmark not only for photographers but also for everyone involved in architecture and urban planning. He worked mostly with a view camera and film in black and white.