Discovering the “Red line”

To celebrate the 50th year of the Red Line (Line 1) of the “Metropolitana di Milano” (Milan underground), Fondazione Franco Albini, in collaboration with Arch. Giovanni Luca Minici, set up a dedicated exhibition.

Our historical archives are now opened in order to unveil original drawings and unrealeased pictures, to give a new and bright light on a work which has been defined: “the greatest project of social design in Milan”, a project soon followed by a huge international success, setting a standard still followed today all around the world.

To host the exhibition, the Foundation opens its historical archive and the Franco Albini’s original studio, rich with unique pieces of Design, unreleased or mass-produced, all supported by sketches, projects and period pictures, interviews and 3D reproductions, to discover from the inside the creative process and the rigorous method used by the Maestro, amongst the most representative and influential personality both in Italian and international architecture and design.