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Abstract

A new condition is shaping up that has been described by Eduardo Vittoria provokingly: "Let's assume that we aren't building anymore a house after the other mechanically and that we are not predetermining, no matter what, the living landscape in its most common aspects: roads, squares, buildings, districts; let's try to replace the abstract couplings of urban planning categories, types, zonings, standards and to develop another series of relationships between the built context and the individual collective life. If to these ideological political administrative and bureaucratic difficulties that oppose constructing, we add the theories of the utopians of anti-space, virtuality and immateriality etc., we support the policy of not doing, which is nonetheless endorsed by a technology that has been proving fantastic in other fields. [...]we believe that Internet, as the emblem of the IT system, is an extremely relevant phenomenon that however doesn't suit architecture (De Fusco, 2001)". Today architecture makes it our responsibility to think of a cultural and operational model to rediscover diversities being fully aware of the validity of referring to a wide field of possibilities to draw from, of governance tools that were previously unthinkable, of a model that can adopt the characters of places, environment, societies and culture following an austere programme that considers resources as a limited heritage to care for and that looks at the building as a resilient, transformable and renewable object. What makes such a practice possible is the idea that design is the expression of a consistent technical feasibility that doesn't forget the original characters of the construction activity that have been wonderfully conveyed by the métis of the Greeks: "Warned by the métis that pervades him of all good and bad things in store for him, Zeus doesn't know any distance between design and implementation: distance from which the traps of the unexpected arise in the lives of other Gods and mortal creatures (Dupire, et al., 1981)".

Details

Title
Cultura del progetto e cultura del fare. L'approccio digitale come dimensione innovativa di processo
Author
Falotico, Antonella 1 

 Dipartimento di Architettura, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico Il, Italia 
Pages
143-150
Section
SAGGI E PUNTI DI VISTA/ESSAYS AND VIEWPOINT
Publication year
2017
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
22390243
e-ISSN
22407391
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1933864639
Copyright
Copyright Firenze University Press 2017