Il grande segno tra utopia e progetto del territorio

From the end of the fifties up to the middle of the seventies, territorial design, the protection of historic town centres and town design were among the major themes in architecture both in Italy and worldwide.Architectural design identifies the place where the complex problems posed by new needs of growth and development can be transferred. Territorial design resolves two issues at the same time: it frees large-scale design from predominantly functional zone-oriented reasoning, and divests it of any question of aesthetics relevant to the requirements of contemporary society.

Il volume individua alcuni elementi di continuità tra i maestri del Movimento Moderno e gli architetti che lavorano nel nostro tempo. La progettazione del territorio, la salvaguardia dei centri storici e il town-design diventano i temi principali del dibattito architettonico internazionale e italiano a partire dagli anni cinquanta.