The cultural and designing approach that Ugo La Pietra founded as a new model of interpretation of architecture and society at the turn of the Sixties and Seventies is the “Disequilibrating system”. More than a method, it’s a type of vision, a sort of telescope to filter the view of the space against any pre-established idea. It’s the disorienting, the fragmentary that interests his poetics. Its aim is to break the balance. This text deals with the main themes of the author’s poetics through the in-depth analysis into some emblematic case studies that bear witness to his continuous research into the relationship between people and environment and its multiple implications: such as the “Commutatore”, the “Visualità Gallery”, the “Jabik shop” and the “occultamento” concealing. The relationship between people and environment never considers the strictly urban or ecological factor, but the phenomenology of reality, amplifying the meaning of the entire emotional, anthropological, existential baggage of our being in the world. In these projects, tilting planes once again become the answer against the rigidity imposed by current regulations. The text ends with a long interview with the designer Ugo La Pietra who invites us to return to live in our cities and to give the community tools to find the right relationship with space. Just as in our domestic place we are able to expand our personality, connote it, so we should be able to do it with urban space, design space to ensure this collective practice.

Il sistema disequilibrante. Ugo La Pietra

michela bassanelli
2020-01-01

Abstract

The cultural and designing approach that Ugo La Pietra founded as a new model of interpretation of architecture and society at the turn of the Sixties and Seventies is the “Disequilibrating system”. More than a method, it’s a type of vision, a sort of telescope to filter the view of the space against any pre-established idea. It’s the disorienting, the fragmentary that interests his poetics. Its aim is to break the balance. This text deals with the main themes of the author’s poetics through the in-depth analysis into some emblematic case studies that bear witness to his continuous research into the relationship between people and environment and its multiple implications: such as the “Commutatore”, the “Visualità Gallery”, the “Jabik shop” and the “occultamento” concealing. The relationship between people and environment never considers the strictly urban or ecological factor, but the phenomenology of reality, amplifying the meaning of the entire emotional, anthropological, existential baggage of our being in the world. In these projects, tilting planes once again become the answer against the rigidity imposed by current regulations. The text ends with a long interview with the designer Ugo La Pietra who invites us to return to live in our cities and to give the community tools to find the right relationship with space. Just as in our domestic place we are able to expand our personality, connote it, so we should be able to do it with urban space, design space to ensure this collective practice.
2020
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