In recent years, the university student housing complex has emerged as one of the most prolific architectural typologies in Europe and Italy, presented as a "sustainable" response to the growing demand for student housing. However, behind a rhetoric based on energy efficiency, technological standardization, and environmental performance, lie widespread forms of ethical, material, and ecological unsustainability. This article offers a critical rereading of the student housing complex as an ideological device capable of condensing some of the main contradictions of contemporary architecture.
Negli ultimi anni, lo studentato universitario è emerso come una delle tipologie architettoniche più prolifiche nel panorama europeo e italiano, presentato come risposta “sostenibile” alla crescente domanda abitativa studentesca. Tuttavia, dietro una retorica fondata su efficienza energetica, standardizzazione tecnologica e performance ambientale, si celano forme diffuse di insostenibilità etica, materiale ed ecologica. Il contributo propone una rilettura critica dello studentato come dispositivo ideologico, capace di condensare alcune delle principali contraddizioni dell’architettura contemporanea.
Crisi di progresso, nessun luogo da abitare / Martini, Rodolfo. - (2026), pp. 88-89. - UNDER CONSTRUCTION. [10.4458/9176-24].
Crisi di progresso, nessun luogo da abitare
Martini, RodolfoPrimo
2026
Abstract
In recent years, the university student housing complex has emerged as one of the most prolific architectural typologies in Europe and Italy, presented as a "sustainable" response to the growing demand for student housing. However, behind a rhetoric based on energy efficiency, technological standardization, and environmental performance, lie widespread forms of ethical, material, and ecological unsustainability. This article offers a critical rereading of the student housing complex as an ideological device capable of condensing some of the main contradictions of contemporary architecture.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


