Unstable states of architecture

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Sergio Crotti
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/65
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 7-20 File size 1136 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2013-065001
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The ongoing planetary upheaval is throwing the fragmented, contaminated and replaced architectural horizon into crisis, generating a negative feedback impact on the founding principles of what is the spatial science par excellence, the re-establishment of which is entrusted to its release from the relativism of nihilist post-modernity. The self-referencing, globalist and iconworshipping stereotypes popularised by the new media and by web information are causing inauspicious distortions against which the revival of theoretical thinking is acting, in the authentic meaning of the cognitive process, to decipher the legacy of the ‘forefront of the most advanced disciplinary knowledge’. It is urgently necessary to free the potentials of the ‘formal logic’ inscribed in the deep layers of ancient knowledge, to be performed to support ‘necessary’ and as such, aware, designing and ‘relational’ architecture, which resists the invasiveness of commercial, stateless models.

Keywords: Architecture; theoretical practice; design

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Sergio Crotti, Stati instabili dell’architettura in "TERRITORIO" 65/2013, pp 7-20, DOI: 10.3280/TR2013-065001