Architecture is above all structure: the organisation and relationship between parts existing within a stable system of references. Architectural form possesses the vividness of a completed sign, the clarity of a closed gesture: a completeness that, nonetheless, accepting change only with great difficulty, is able to repel the inexorable flow of life. Change, in fact, is the basic state of the human condition.
The study I propose concerns some projects developed but not builded in Rome between 1980 and
1990.
These projects allow us to develop a reflection on themes and methods used in contemporary design
in the historical center. In them the functional distinction and design definition of the architects
may identify some ways of architectural design in a stratified context such as the historical center of
Rome.
This projects are the one for archaeological site of the Imperial Forums designed by Leonardo Benevolo
Mythology of the public square and the forest: modern city and the Nature; The disappearance of urban space; Durability and future; No mythology without iconology.
This book intends to give a contribution to an urgent issue, that concerns the presence of the past in the actual contemporary China, involved in a rapid development that risks to erase the traces of its millenary urban history. The town of Anhai, in Quanzhou city metropolitan area, presents a wide and various urban heritage, typical of Fujian: extensive fabric of traditional, red brick courtyard houses goes together with the presence of some important monuments, among which the ancient Anping bridge is the most relevant.
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