The Exhibition of 1928 in Turin and its Digital Context

The Italian National Exhibition held in Turin in 1928 was a temporary but significant event in the history of the city. The paper focuses on the reconstruction of its architectural and cultural context through a multidisciplinary approach as research training for a thesis. The research looks at the event as a part of the urban history connecting the spatial transformations of the area during the exhibition with the city’s changes at that time. The hypermedial platform links the visualization of the architecture of the exhibition to the relationships with more projects built or discussed in Turin in the same period as well as to a range of other subjects and protagonists of the cultural debate. The 3D modelling of the area recreates the pavilions built of some relevant architects, particularly Giuseppe Pagano. Although the difficulties and complexity of visualizing some elements based on incomplete historical sources, the virtual reconstruction is an important support to better understand these displays early experiencing in Turin the modern architecture. They didn’t left any visual signs on the ground but a significant sign in the memory.