One Pair of Eyes — Season 1, Episode 55: Leonardo Ricci: Starting from Zero

Episode synopsis

Starting from zero, says Leonardo Ricci, 'is the point every man should arrive at. A man is a man when he finds himself alone and has to survive.' Ricci is an Italian architect, painter and urban planner. During the Second World War he saw communes rise spontaneously amidst the devastation in Sicily. Ever since he has worked to produce a radically new architecture, one which encourages a communal city life, and which also allows everyone to live within easy reach of the countryside. The programme was filmed in Sicily and Florence, his home city.

About One Pair of Eyes

A monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1James Cameron: Temporary Person Passing Through
• E2Dr Alex Comfort: A Traveller in the Dreamtime
• E3Anthony Howard: A City of Magnificent Intentions
• E4Nicholas Tomalin: No Worse Heresy
• E5James Cameron: The Road to Kingdom Come
• E6Jo Grimond: The Dead Hand of Democracy
• E7Peter Wilson: You've Got to Win
• E8Norman Parkinson: Stay Baby Stay
• E9Sir Tyrone Guthrie: Off to Philadelphia
• E10James Cameron: Berlin - The Haunted House
• E11Margaret Drabble: A Place Called Exile
• E12Claud Cockburn: One More River To Cross