Ivrea (Italy) and Hunedoara (Romania), are two small industrial cities grown in

different geographical and political contests, but in the same mainstream of the

industrial european history during the second half of Twentieth Century, with a

consistant architectural heritage for their national realities.

Ivrea and Hunedoara are now going through urban and

cultural changes, favoured also by EU cultural politics that stress the importance of collections –

archives and the real city – as a deposit of essential informations to understand

the shifts of our cities and to define new grounds of use and reflections about them.