Landscape as a Resource to be Designed

• Main Author: Stefano Aragona
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria 2019-07-01
• Series: ArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro - Architecture History Restoration
• Subjects: Paesaggio; risorsa; progetto
• Online Access: http://pkp.unirc.it/ojs/index.php/archistor/article/view/485

For the first time, the Voyage pittoresque of Saint-Non offered an image of landscapes suited to the romantic perception of the sublime, the result of a peculiar interpenetration between the work of man and a very varied and magnificently “wild” nature. Today, much of that perception is compromised, if not irretrievably lost. Will it be possible to recover, revitalizing a landscape so characterized and fascinating? Will it be possible to reconcile the recovery of historical perception with the demands of modernity? To do this we must consider the landscape as a resource to be designed with wisdom. This design wisdom must consist in considering local conditions not as constraints but as useful suggestions: starting from the place, from the geomorphological and landscape context, to give the project a territorial scale with ecological connotations, in a philosophical meaning extended to a social and historical vision of the landscape.