Dialogues
Architecture 3rd ed.
Emilio Faroldi, Maria Pilar Vettori
LetteraVentidue
Syracuse 2019
ABSTRACT
"The dialogue, as ""the conversation that the soul has with itself in which the act of thinking consists"" (Plato), is chosen as the ideal form to restore, with a vivid expression, the thought of some protagonists of modern Italian architecture. (Plato), is chosen as the ideal form to convey, in a lively and faithful expression, the thought of some protagonists of modern Italian architecture. Knowledge is known knowledge and heritage of the soul that remains latent until a specific stimulus comes to reawaken its memory: architecture, rather than sofia, wisdom, becomes filo-sophia, that is, the love of wisdom. A reading of the architectural phenomenon aimed at faithfully and consciously highlighting its complexity cannot disregard the stories directly told by the protagonists and the micro-stories of the individual episodes, aimed at exploring the relationship between the poetic sphere and the technical-scientific sphere, highlighting complementarities and conflicts. The disciplinary tools of exegesis of the project and its materialisation stimulate a form of criticism of criticism that finds its motivations in the rejection of an interpretative approach to architecture that focuses exclusively on the outcome. Method and outcome are inseparable terms: the direct testimony of some of the protagonists of Italian architecture makes it possible to tie up the broken threads of a story that an often superficial divulgation has made syncopated and unilateral. The Dialogues of Architecture explore the interweaving of conception, design and realisation, revealing the different operational and conceptual methods used to achieve the built work. Franco Albini, Lodovico B. di Belgiojoso, Guido Canella, Aurelio Cortesi, Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola, Ignazio Gardella, Vittorio Gregotti, Vico Magistretti, Enrico Mantero, Paolo Portoghesi, Aldo Rossi, Giuseppe Terragni, Vittoriano Viganò, are the authors of this narrative."
