Although part of these projects never came to light, the construction of public and private buildings and parks, the resettlement of facades of previously existing monuments and of the city walls, by insertion of gates and tollhouses, and a partial realization of the rettifili have given Milan a strong identity and made the city represent the illuminist thought as a testimony of the coincidence between thought and work. 

Marco Introini’s photographic project originates from the intention to represent this exact historical moment, the coincidence between thought and work as a remembrance of a process of civil construction. The project is currently in progress.

A documentary photographer and graduate in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, Marco Introini teaches architectural photography at the Faculty of Civil Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. He has received several awards for his work including Descubrimientos at the PHotoEspaña05 International Festival.

His work is included in La misura dello spazio, fotografia e architettura: conversazione con i protagonisti (“Measuring Space, photography and architecture: in conversation with the protagonists”), Rome 2010, edited by M.L. Galiardi. He has worked on a variety of publications and photographic exhibitions about architecture and landscape. Among those Multan_Pakistan, the Walled City.