Margherita Guccione on MAXXI Expansion and Rome's Urban Future

Architect and scientific director Margherita Guccione discussed the Grande MAXXI expansion project in a 2024 interview with Artribune. She described the future museum as greener, more sustainable, and more complex, with enhanced cultural offerings. Functional advantages include new spaces for storage and restoration labs, fostering relationships with institutions dedicated to contemporary restoration. These connections also promote Rome's future development, a central theme of Spazio Taverna's Vision of Rome format. The interview is part of Vision of Rome, an initiative by Spazio Taverna to build an archive of Rome's future through testimonies from cultural professionals reshaping the city. The series, published on the School of Vision's official channels, blends interviews and mini-documentaries exploring intersections of art, architecture, and innovation. Featured figures include architects from Labics, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça (promoting new Vatican dialogue with the contemporary), Stefano Boeri (architect and creator of the Roma 2050 urban lab), and Fabrizio Palermo (CEO of ACEA, with the ACEA Heritage project). Guccione reflected on the MAXXI's role as a civic platform where architecture, culture, research, and public space coexist, positioning Rome as a laboratory for rethinking how cultural institutions can actively shape the city's future through sustainability, education, and new forms of participation.