Restoring the fundamental values to face the critical issues of contemporary architecture. The development of a method

Contemporary Architecture faces two main critical issues, both in research and practice. On the one hand, the discipline is dismembered from the inside due to the rush for technological development and the increasing demand for new strategies to reduce energy consumption. On the other hand, the cross-pollination with Art and the dialogue with History have gradually decreased, thus causing the architects to lose their prominent cultural role in society. The article illustrates the relevance of the doctoral research project through its partial outcomes supported by personal interpretative drawings and images. The research starts by defining the fundamental values by which Architecture expresses itself, establishes the critical issue of its contemporary condition, and proposes the basis for a valid method for analyzing and designing. The case study examines the work of Giuseppe Perugini, a relatively unknown architect who devoted his entire life in fostering innovation in Architecture by reinterpreting its traditional parameters and defining their more appropriate posture based on the mutated human condition of his times. More specifically, his project of the ‘Casa Albero’ serves as the loose basis to demonstrate a material response to issues that are located on the level of abstraction and it could be de"ned as a best practice in terms of the depth of thought that an architect should have while thinking and designing an architecture. !e architect is responsible for transmitting the values of Architecture into society that pass through the spatial experiences stored in memory.