Grottoes

2023 – 2013

A series of chamber-grottoes across Cardillo’s corpus, silver, golden, coral, volcanic, under-river and earthen, where each room takes on the nature of the cave

Topics

Genres work
Stages built

Description

Six chamber-grottoes built between 2013 and 2023, from House of Dust in Rome to Elogio del grigio near Lake Garda, later gathered under the name of Grottoes. In each, a single hall takes on the nature of the cave, and each cave has its own element: earth, river, volcanic ash, coral, gold and silver.

The silver cave.

Castiglione delle Stiviere,

The golden cave.

Rome,

The coral cave.

Trapani,

The volcanic cave.

London,

The under-river cave.

Rome,

The earth cave.

Rome,

Publications

2019 – 2015 (selected)

Theoretical writings

  • , ‘A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations’, lecture as part of the Dessauer Gespräche cur. Johannes Kister, Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Institute of Architecture, 13 Nov. 2019; transcript published on , 15 April 2023.
  • , ‘Vaults, grottoes, arches and polychromy’, lecture as part of the ArchitekTOUR Kongress, Heinze, Station Berlin, 23 Nov. 2017; transcript published on , 27 May 2020.

Bibliography

2018 – 2017 (selected)

Reception in press and internet