Architecture Context Responsibility. Establishing a Dialogue and Following Patterns

The aim of the book is to explore the evolution of both architecture and urban space, in terms of their mutual relationship expressed within space, purpose, and time. In a world where architecture and urban landscapes seem to becoming increasingly “iconic” the book aims to going on in two ways: on one hand studying the influence of the concrete (o real) architecture on urban space; on the other hand give a deep look inside the “iconic” investigating the relationship between what we see –images, digital nets etc. - and what we really live in cities and urban landscapes. The recent economical crisis has probably reshaped the urban transformation especially in Mediterranean countries. The sustainability has become a “must” not only by a technological point of view. If one is charged to design a space or a building will have the duty of put them in a cultural system. Building without culture means only spoiling the environments. Culture means also context and this last is a complicated layering of heritage, ways of living, space practices, aesthetic matter (proportion, facades composition, roofs shapes), places specificity that are supposed to be valorized. Establishing a dialogue and following patterns means wondering in which way architectural and urban design could reshape our urban spaces for the future.