Concreteness and pragmatism for architecture

• Main Author: Andrea Zamboni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2015-11-01
• Series: In_Bo
• Subjects: Equilibrio; Coscienza; Innovazione; Contemporaneità; Tipicità
• Online Access: http://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/5933

If the challenge we face today is the global market, our task is to once again place earth and humanity at the center of an equilibrium built on the basis of respect and with more attention to differences. Concepts such as Smart City, Green or Urban Regeneration have become merely slogans that give name to the actual needs our cities face which increasingly generate centers of gathering and concentrations of people, energy, innovation. The best design made in Italy was created by postwar architects who brought forward a new point of view that considered the detail as the starting point for design from which the whole follows. The term design was invented only later. One of the first choices a student has is knowing how to identify and recognize their own “master” and to be able to firmly make this decision.