L'architetto generalista
Academy of Architecture
Increasingly, and today even urgently, architecture needs to be understood as an interdisciplinary culture that deals with the organization of the living space, because the world beyond it is inevitably dominated by individual branches of knowledge, whether technical, engineering, scientific, organizational and even aesthetic. And if the logic of specialized spheres of competence gains the upper hand, these fields of knowledge will be transformed from indispensable contributions into precepts that reduce the project to a collage of solutions, with overall results that will be dismal. To prevent architecture from ending up relegated to the destiny of a technical service or mere aesthetic entertainment, it is essential to continuously rethink the design process in ways that will reinforce the figure of a total operator.
Texts by Werner Oechslin, Stefano Musso, Bruno Pedretti, Christoph Frank, Sonja Hildebrand, Annemarie Jaeggi, Fulvio Irace, Manfredo di Robilant.
Projects by: Atelier Cube, Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus, Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, Mario Botta, Bonell and Gil, Aurelio Galfetti.