The transcendent Dimension of Cities

Nader Ardalan

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6289

Autori

Nader Ardalan Harvard University
Nader Ardalan is a practicing Architect with over five decades of award winning international experience. He was Senior Research Associate at GSD, Harvard University; co-author of The Sense of Unity, Chicago University Press; author of Blessed Jerusalem, Harvard University; and founding member Steering Committee, Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6289

Parole chiave:

Cosmologia, Ecologia, Metafisica, Spazio, Trascendente

Abstract

Presi tra passato, quando le credenze religiose tradizionali strutturavano la maggior parte delle visioni del mondo, e l’attuale regno della quantità e del consumismo materiale, che sta minacciando l’esistenza stessa della vita sulla terra, rimaniamo in trepida attesa della prossima fase ancora sconosciuta della coscienza umana per contribuire a mitigare le emergenti sfide della vita. Così, gli esseri umani esistono in una situazione di transizione che è precaria eppure piena di potenzialità. In questo panorama, l’articolo si concentra su due domande meno impegnative, tuttavia cardine, per quanto riguarda i nostri ambienti urbani: “Quali sono i fondamenti trascendenti che hanno dato i natali ed hanno sostenuto storicamente le grandi città del Medio Oriente negli ultimi dieci millenni e che cosa possiamo imparare da loro che possa informare e influenzare le trasformazioni olistiche e i modelli di vita delle nostre città di oggi ed il loro futuro? “

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