The Forum, intended as a "symbolic form" of a universal and timeless collective life, has been repeatedly reinterpreted in the course of civil and urban history until reaching the conditions conforming to the contemporary project. Bearer of that ideal load capable to conform the "space" as an "urban place" and, even before that, as a "community site", the Forum as an archetype has a dual nature: on the one hand, in the variant of the Roman forum, it is a place of stratification, of paratactic evolution, and it is a diachronic expression of manipulation; on the other, in the variant of the Imperial forum, it is the place of the planning and synchronic choices, of the rational measure and rules. According to these principles, inherited from Greece, Rome codified a "form" and a "space" of the collective living that has crossed the history of the European city to nowadays: the contemporary square is a space full of flows, of changes, a "salotto a cielo aperto", a pivot in the European tradition in the city of all time. A system "delivered" from the past, as a datum to which to tend to conform? A every time renewed choice, substantiated with the evolved characteristics of society for which an "a priori" is dialectical base to configure the historical continuum? Space, form, uses, dimensions: how do they manifest themselves within this reference frame? The proposed contribution aims to investigate the layout and evolution of the space of the Forum archetype to outline the expressions of a methodological - before figurative - "classic", in the logic of identifying the specific characteristics of which it appears to be bearer. Archetypal abstraction is here proposed as a critical-synthetic process, reading key for the urban space of the twentieth century to contemporary: works by Italian masters of Razionalismo will be analyzed highlighting aspects of those "mechanisms of continuity" that pervades the public space of the contemporary city.

The Forum as an archetype for the contemporary public space / Leoni, Simone. - 2:(2019), pp. 104-105. (Intervento presentato al convegno 1st IConA International Conference on Architecture "Creativity and Realitity. The art of building future cities" tenutosi a Roma; Italia).

The Forum as an archetype for the contemporary public space

Simone Leoni
2019

Abstract

The Forum, intended as a "symbolic form" of a universal and timeless collective life, has been repeatedly reinterpreted in the course of civil and urban history until reaching the conditions conforming to the contemporary project. Bearer of that ideal load capable to conform the "space" as an "urban place" and, even before that, as a "community site", the Forum as an archetype has a dual nature: on the one hand, in the variant of the Roman forum, it is a place of stratification, of paratactic evolution, and it is a diachronic expression of manipulation; on the other, in the variant of the Imperial forum, it is the place of the planning and synchronic choices, of the rational measure and rules. According to these principles, inherited from Greece, Rome codified a "form" and a "space" of the collective living that has crossed the history of the European city to nowadays: the contemporary square is a space full of flows, of changes, a "salotto a cielo aperto", a pivot in the European tradition in the city of all time. A system "delivered" from the past, as a datum to which to tend to conform? A every time renewed choice, substantiated with the evolved characteristics of society for which an "a priori" is dialectical base to configure the historical continuum? Space, form, uses, dimensions: how do they manifest themselves within this reference frame? The proposed contribution aims to investigate the layout and evolution of the space of the Forum archetype to outline the expressions of a methodological - before figurative - "classic", in the logic of identifying the specific characteristics of which it appears to be bearer. Archetypal abstraction is here proposed as a critical-synthetic process, reading key for the urban space of the twentieth century to contemporary: works by Italian masters of Razionalismo will be analyzed highlighting aspects of those "mechanisms of continuity" that pervades the public space of the contemporary city.
2019
1st IConA International Conference on Architecture "Creativity and Realitity. The art of building future cities"
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The Forum as an archetype for the contemporary public space / Leoni, Simone. - 2:(2019), pp. 104-105. (Intervento presentato al convegno 1st IConA International Conference on Architecture "Creativity and Realitity. The art of building future cities" tenutosi a Roma; Italia).
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