HISTORY AS A DESIGN ELEMENT: DIALOGUE BETWEEN EXISTING AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

There is a relationship between the past and the contemporary manifestations that directly influences the debate on the design and construction practice of architecture, on its role and destination, on its relating to the complex context of the discipline. The dialogue between conservation and innovation is still far from glimpsing a horizon of encounter and sharing, today accompanied by reductive theories capable of exclusively proposing the deletion of one of the two factors at play. The enhancement of the Italian landscape, and more generally European, interpreted through a social meaning, is based on the reading of the culture of places and the denial of a homologated growth of a territory that, in its diversity, expresses harmony, beauty, value. In Italy, an idea of architecture that is not related to the concepts of memory and identity, related to environmental, historical and cultural logics is not conceivable.