The regeneration of living space

Abstract

Technicism and technocracy, and that is to say, the methodologies that originate and develop from strictly technical issues, risk overshadow the great wealth of knowledge acquired in “urban studies” between the 60s and 80s. If we refer to the Italian condition: the architecture must manage urban phenomena with the same role as before, yet with a single, substantial innovation: rejecting, as much as possible, to design and build on open space and instead increase revitalization projects that build through renewal strategies of recovery, transformation or recycling. We ought to go back to when an architecture project was considered a path of knowledge and not just of invention, giving preference to space instead of image, content instead of form and wisdom over creative impulse.