Ricerc@Sapienza

The city is a “system of connection”: a set of relationships between the building typology and the urban morphology, between the positioning of the monuments in relation to the fabrics, between the discipline of the plan and the need to give form to places and spatial quality of contexts. This “system of connection” is evident in the historic city, which it’s structured through the formation of dense and compact “fabrics” and it recognizes its element of formation in the concept of “urban block”.

The Third ISUFITALY International Congress (ISUF Italy 2017) will be held in Rome from February 23rd to February 24th and will host 75 participants, more than 40 coming from foreign countries and the others from the Italian Schools of architecture. ISUFITALY is launching its third international congress after hosting in 2015 the Twenty-Second International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF Rome 2015) attended by 350 participants (800 abstract submitted) and publishing in 2016 the proceedings by U+D Editions, a monographic series launched beside