One.Zero. Architectures. A cura di Doriana O. Mandrelli, Massimo Riposati.

Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - English ; French ; Italian. - In Pessoa's book O Marinhero, Drama estatico em urn quadro, to pass the night, the second vigil-keeper tells the story of a sailor who, after being shipwrecked for a long time on a desert island feels the need to build himself a homeland, he who had not had many homelands. He builds one mentally. He starts by imagining the scenery, then the roads, the squares and then every detail until he imagines even the inhabitants of his new homeland. This way of proceeding takes for granted that the concept of a city or a district is not based on the architecture, the buildings or the town planning, but on the scenery. This way of envisaging a city on the part of a writer is at the least surprising. It amazes us, we who are used to so many clich� For an architect, the identification of a city is almost always expressed by the emerging elements, a bridge, a monument, a tower, a district or a geometrical structure. By and large, we nearly all think like collectors of those little glass balls with snow that are sold in all the souvenir shops and which show us stereotypes of the different cities. W. Allen, in a film, shows us Venice with the Grand Canal, Paris with the Sacr�oeur or New York, Central Park, covered in snow and exclamations of the type: how nice to be in New York for Christmas! Rarely does anybody consider a city's "GEOGRAPHY" as its constituent element. I think the failure of modern town planning is the result of the idea of constructing models to suit all contexts and every occasion. The rigidity of these theories is the principal cause of many disasters: the changes and the extremely rapid mutations of our society are not taken into account. ISBN 9788837415891