Prologhi di Architettura / Prologues of Architecture Temi e attori del teatro urbano / Themes and Actors of the Urban Theater

Twelve, like the semitones that make up a musical octave, the Prologues presented in this volume in monologue form seek to offer insights, doubts and ideas about issues in urban planning, regenerative strategies for the territory and the role of architecture in configuring a renewed landscape built in opposition to the current prevailing scission between forms and contents. Regeneration, infrastructure, continuity, tectonics, innovation, resilience, matter, measure, construction, space, time, and heteronomy bring out key themes of the reflection conducted by the author in the heart of the discipline, essential ingredients of a theoretical and purposeful research in which memory is the element of dialogue between history, contemporaneity, and new hybridizations.

The book highlights themes and actors of an urban theater capable of fostering debate on architecture, on its becoming relevant and timely and its steady evolution.

Bilingual volume, in Italian and in English. Translation by Richard Sadleir.