The volume collects a series of contributions on the topic of urban design by various authors, who were asked to clarify their relationship with the shape of the city and its impact on the contemporary world. The city seen not so much or only as a collective work of art, but as an expression of a desire to share life in a community that recognizes itself in it and also expresses itself through urban forms. If the assumption is true that the different communities over the centuries have been able to give life to forms and precise hierarchical relationships between the parts, which, consolidated over time, have provided convincing answers to the theme of living, perhaps it is still possible to have a constructed experience, living material of the architectural thought of our time. Our cities, which have experienced great changes since the mid-twentieth century, need to be rethought, to be repopulated with new architecture and public spaces full of meaning and capable of responding to the new urgencies imposed on us by the environmental, social and economic situation. Work on the consolidated city is the horizon in which contemporary architecture has begun to move for some time now. This is therefore a field of research and experimentation for new structures of the urban scene. Redevelop, regenerate, build on buildings, urban recycling, zero consumption, are all lexical formulas which, from different points of view and with different nuances, indicate the same situation and the intent to deal with those areas that the voracity of urbanization processes of the last half century, has left unresolved or vague or plainly unpleasant. Remediating stretch marks and visual disturbances, such as accidents and aporias spread by the rapid succession of transformations, is one of the tasks that architects will have to face in the near future, perhaps the most conspicuous.

Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi di vari autori sul tema del progetto urbano a cui è stato chiesto di chiarire il loro rapporto con la forma della città consolidata e il suo portato nella contemporaneità. La città vista non tanto o solo come opera d’arte collettiva, ma in quanto espressione di una volontà di condivisione del vivere in una comunità che in essa si riconosce e si esprime anche attraverso le forme urbane. Se è vero l’assunto che le diverse collettività nei secoli hanno saputo dare vita a forme e precise relazioni gerarchiche tra le parti, che consolidatesi nel tempo hanno fornito risposte convincenti al tema dell’abitare, forse è ancora possibile fare dell’esperienza costruita, materia viva del pensiero d’architettura del nostro tempo. Le nostre città, che dalla metà del Novecento hanno conosciuto grandi cambiamenti, hanno bisogno di essere ripensate, di ripopolarsi di nuove architetture e spazi pubblici carichi di significato e capaci di rispondere alle nuove urgenze imposteci dalla situazione ambientale, sociale ed economica. Il lavoro sulla città consolidata è l’orizzonte in cui l’architettura contemporanea ha cominciato a muoversi ormai da qualche tempo. È quindi questo un campo di ricerca e sperimentazione per nuove strutture della scena urbana. Riqualificare, rigenerare, costruire sul costruito, riciclo urbano, consumo zero, sono tutte formule lessicali che, da punti di vista diversi e con sfumature diverse, indicano la stessa situazione e l’intento di occuparsi di quelle aree che la voracità dei processi di urbanizzazione dell’ultimo mezzo secolo, ha lasciato irrisolto o vago o chiaramente sgradevole. Rimediare a smagliature e disturbi visivi, come incidenti e aporie disseminate dal rapido susseguirsi delle trasformazioni, è uno dei compiti che gli architetti dovranno affrontare nel prossimo futuro, forse il più cospicuo.

La maieutica della città. Contributi sul progetto urbano e architettonico / Francesco Saverio Fera. - STAMPA. - (2022), pp. 1-204.

La maieutica della città. Contributi sul progetto urbano e architettonico

Francesco Saverio Fera
2022

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The volume collects a series of contributions on the topic of urban design by various authors, who were asked to clarify their relationship with the shape of the city and its impact on the contemporary world. The city seen not so much or only as a collective work of art, but as an expression of a desire to share life in a community that recognizes itself in it and also expresses itself through urban forms. If the assumption is true that the different communities over the centuries have been able to give life to forms and precise hierarchical relationships between the parts, which, consolidated over time, have provided convincing answers to the theme of living, perhaps it is still possible to have a constructed experience, living material of the architectural thought of our time. Our cities, which have experienced great changes since the mid-twentieth century, need to be rethought, to be repopulated with new architecture and public spaces full of meaning and capable of responding to the new urgencies imposed on us by the environmental, social and economic situation. Work on the consolidated city is the horizon in which contemporary architecture has begun to move for some time now. This is therefore a field of research and experimentation for new structures of the urban scene. Redevelop, regenerate, build on buildings, urban recycling, zero consumption, are all lexical formulas which, from different points of view and with different nuances, indicate the same situation and the intent to deal with those areas that the voracity of urbanization processes of the last half century, has left unresolved or vague or plainly unpleasant. Remediating stretch marks and visual disturbances, such as accidents and aporias spread by the rapid succession of transformations, is one of the tasks that architects will have to face in the near future, perhaps the most conspicuous.
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La maieutica della città. Contributi sul progetto urbano e architettonico / Francesco Saverio Fera. - STAMPA. - (2022), pp. 1-204.
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