Architectural remembrances

The creative process is a necessity of the man who aspires, to immortality by breaking down his physical and biological limit. It is the will to renew oneself and to recreate one’s space of life owning objects of use, thought and writing. It is a continuous confrontation with what has been achieved in history, in one’s own time: it is a critical conscience. Architecture, as the art of building, it is composed of imperceptible references, of hidden memories of apparently random figurative elements. In the creation act of the architectural project there is the synthesis of the evolutionary tension of people. In it you can explore new roads, new techniques, new materials, but is in the form, which the senses of the past resurface and question the future, like a seed that sprouts in silence from the depths of the earth. The eidos can evoke something that is present only in the author/creator’s mind and in the observer’s one. It is a parallel time, in the compositional present, that projects itself into the future on a latent idea in the hand of the “mediator” architect. A tuning of historical familiarity that overcomes the discomfort of humanity, triggering a positive evocation for ancient times. They are architectural remembrances, those interiorized images in the collective consciousness, able to recall sensations and emotions, which suggest appropriate solutions to the project in the circularity of time. Today, in the profound crisis of values and cultural identity, flashy images are mixed with constructed reality. Belonging to a place, its history, architecture and habitat becomes the identifying element both in the way of living a space, and in being part of it or creators of the transformation. It is the keystone of creativity that arises in the furrow of local historical continuity, with global contaminations, to become universal. There are buildings that more than others represent the cultural identity of a community. The school architecture plays an important role in the construction of the civic and aesthetic sense of a city. How does contemporary school architecture differ from formal research of creative solutions in the compositional features of spaces? Is the school still that “place of inspiration”, characterized by the inclination to study and “community building”, as Kahn was talking about? It is a theme that focuses on the analysis of the architectural project, contrasting the cultural memories of a community with the authorial creative gesture.