Urban Architectures: a design inquiry

The contribution reformulates the field of Urban Design within the Architectural discourse, longing to enlighten almost hidden or forgotten narratives concerning the development of specific researches and works focusing on Urban Architectures. The design inquiry revolves around the related theoretical positions, basically entrusted to the architect’s biographies, design experiences, and interlaced trajectories belonging to the cultural panorama of another Modern tradition. The selection of specific themes around urban architectures aims to engage a broader reflection and partially reconstruct a tree of references for a particular way of understanding and doing Architecture, which implies a critical continuity with the history of forms in constructing the built environment.