Compositional languages and expression codes in the era of environmental sustainability. Towards the refounding of a theory of architecture

The ambition of the pursuit of environmental sustainability in the current building industry is leading to a recent development of new architectural languages over the world. This is a process, still in the midst of its development, of compositional research applied to the use of different construction technologies (often developed to satisfy local regulatory constraints and on – site practices) that on the theoretical side does not still correspond to a real systematization of the related compositional languages. This contribution aims to investigate (starting from the analysis of real case studies located in different geographical, climatic and constructive contexts) the analytical and critical tools to be adopted for the understanding, systematization and future development of sustainability’s compositional languages and architectural codes.