Campaign to Name a Milan Street After Photographer Gabriele Basilico

A campaign is urging the city of Milan to name a street or piazza after the late photographer Gabriele Basilico, ten years after his death. Basilico, a Milan native, documented the city's industrial and modernist architecture from the late 1970s through the 2010s, including works for AEM (now A2A) and series on factories and night scenes. A major exhibition of his Milan photographs is scheduled for October at the Triennale di Milano. The proposed location is a piazza in the Olympic Village for the 2026 Winter Games, adjacent to a railway warehouse Basilico photographed 40 years ago, which has been preserved and integrated into the new development by SOM. The piazza would later become part of a student housing complex developed by Coima, Covivio, and Prada. The municipality is reportedly considering naming a garden after Basilico, but advocates argue a street or piazza is more significant.