The Pesaro School Campus: a field of artificial ruins

Carlo Aymonino’s first designs for the Pesaro School Campus date back to 1971. This project, developed in three versions between 1971 and 1975, included four main parts in its final form: a scientific high school, a technical commercial institute for accountants, an institute for surveyors, and a Civic centre. The complex also included gyms, a swimming pool, an athletics field, a library, study rooms, a lecture hall, and a cafeteria. However, the project was only partially completed: neither the Civic centre nor the Civic tower, the latter designed by Aldo Rossi in 1979, would be built.