Institutional portal - Municipality of Milan

It is possible to view i names of the members of the Commission, theirs curricula as well as the declarations certifying the list of construction projects carried out and/or started in the city of Milan in the last three years (in which they have professionally collaborated and worked before taking on the role - see Building Regulations - art. 49.8).

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In order to simplify the administrative activity, clients and designers are asked to submit, at the same time as the building practices that require an opinion under the jurisdiction of the Landscape Commission, a BOOK that contains the necessary and sufficient documents for the evaluation of the Commission.

• Information and contents BOOK

The Landscape Commission in office for the three-year period 2021-2024, in its session on 3 November 2022, approved the document "Principles for the Urban Regeneration of Milan".

The same Commission, in the session of 5 October 2023, approved the integration of the document with the inclusion of a new principle regarding "tall buildings".

The document communicates that the Urban Regeneration of Milan has among its foundations the qualitative transformation of the forma urbis, with the aim of contributing to triggering an evolutionary process of the urban fabrics and increasing the quality of form and use of open spaces, a prerequisite of overall improvement of the city's landscape.

The Landscape Commission therefore urges clients and designers to contribute to raising the quality levels of the city's open space, strengthening with buildings the present and recognizable typological elements of Milan's spatiality: streets, squares, blocks, tree-lined avenues, gardens urban areas, parks, water channels. And also reinterpreting these same typological elements in contemporary terms in the configuration of new parts of the city.

• Principles for the Urban Regeneration of Milan - 3 November 2022 updated on 5 October 2023 

Appeal for responsible intervention on the building heritage - Year 2021

Following the administrative simplifications regarding the "Eco bonus", the Landscape Commission of the Municipality of Milan, in underlining the need and importance of the energy improvement of the building stock, expresses concern for the outcomes of a process potentially indifferent to its architectural quality and promotes an appeal for careful and sensitive planning of the architectural object on which one intervenes, also in terms of language, finishes and materials.
For the interventions that can be carried out with the foreseen procedures, the cultural responsibility for the methods of transformation of the building heritage that configures the entire landscape of the city of Milan has been entirely entrusted to the clients and designers, without any comparison or verification by the institutions. .
A landscape that includes a significant and particular season of European modernity, also known and studied abroad, particularly fragile above all due to its experimental nature on materials, and which also includes important evidence of the attempts to confer architectural dignity on the very notable building development of the second post-war period by resorting to discreet and delicate details, which today, just when they are starting to be considered and appreciated, risk being uncritically erased.
Adequate sensitivity to the project could evaluate interventions that involve the fronts of public spaces as little as possible, where adequate qualities are recognised, with a view to safeguarding the collective and identity memory of Milan's architecture and landscape as a whole.
The Landscape Commission of the Municipality of Milan. Approved unanimously at the meeting of 1 July 2021.

• Appeal for responsible intervention on the building heritage >>>

Contribution to the enhancement of the heritage of modern Milanese architecture: intervention evaluation criteria - Year 2020

The Landscape Commission, in the session of 23 July 2020, approved the document "CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE HERITAGE OF MODERN MILAN ARCHITECTURE: CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS" with the aim of starting to address more systematically, also from the operational, the issue is as delicate and important as it is very urgent, of what perspective to outline for this fundamental part of the identity of the Milanese urban landscape.

• Extract from the minutes of the meeting of 23 July 2020 >>>

Manifesto of addresses and guidelines - Years 2010-2016

In 2010, the Landscape Commission of the Municipality of Milan adopted the first "Manifesto of addresses and guidelines" (approved in the session of 4 February 2010) in order to explain some qualitative criteria used for the evaluation of projects. Six years later, after the approval in 2012 of the Territorial Government Plan (PGT) and in 2014 of the new Building Regulations (RE) - which defined many fundamental elements regarding landscape aspects and attributed further tasks to the Commission itself - the Commission deemed it appropriate to propose a First Update based on the experience gained. The new version of the Manifesto confirms, on the one hand, general principles and objectives and, on the other, adds some further indications regarding the project evaluation criteria.
The document is aimed primarily at designers, including the designers of public works who play a decisive role in generating the urban quality of the contemporary city, and therefore also at designers who operate within the Municipality of Milan itself, in investee companies and in other entities. Secondly, the Manifesto is aimed at operators and clients (public and private), as well as, more generally, at "all citizens wishing to consciously participate in the processes of transformation of their living environment".

• Manifesto of addresses and guidelines – 21 July 2016
• Manifesto of addresses and guidelines – 4 February 2010