Representing Identity and Contradictions of Contemporary Landscape

As Robert Venturi wrote, the main job for an architect consists in organizing conventional parts as a unitary system by skillfully introducing new elements where the old ones prove to be unsuitable (Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, ed. it.,). In the light of the foregoing, the concept of Venturi is effective both in analysis and in design project and can be applied to contemporary landscape where it is considered for its complexity: in other words both when we look at landscape as an identity place and as a result of manifold and sometimes contradictory changes. So, if the European Convention of Landscape [5] calls on people living a territory to take care of their own landscape, preserving the identity, it’s also possible to look at landscape as a complex problem, as layering of various historical traces, in other words, as a palimpsest. In order to decode the parts characterizing such system, distinguishing or proposing new elements regard the old and unsuitable ones, employing methods, tools and technologies of landscape representation is crucial, both to reveal the identity and to clarify the contradictions; especially Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality allow today to effectively visualize past changes and anticipate forthcoming projects.