Due eredità per l'architettura contemporanea

Abstract

The recent past gives us two legacies. The first one is the contemporary city, with its privileges but also with its urban form and social problems. A city that, expanding horizontally, has lost all relationship with the essential character of the historic center. A city that has attacked the landscape, profoundly altering the perfect balance between nature and artifice. The second legacy is the architectural culture of the so-called "Italian line" of the fifties and sixties: that road of "retreat" that too soon has been forgotten. A road traveled by very high level architects (Ridolfi, Gardella, Muratori, Rogers, Gabetti-Isola, Ranieri and a few others) who have been able to deal with history, the environment and the expressive value of traditional culture. A road that must be re-evaluated to regain the ability to read the essential characteristics of the territory that have made the Italian landscape unique.