Concentration against dispersion: the city within the city. Reasons for a new collective housing

Today's necessity to speak about the relationship between architecture and ideology depends on the progressive leaving of the architectural discipline from its necessary operative reasons: the idea and the form. This progressive leaving has provoked that the collective value of the architecture degenerates into a communicative vehicle and into a purely aesthetic result, and has provoked also the degeneration of the individual sphere, which is intended only as a private interest. Such degenerations flow in the fall of the collective sense of the city within the individual and collective sphere necessarily coexist, giving themselves a reason through the identification and the denomination of a selected place and the peculiar values that it communicates. The return of the interest towards the ideology marks the possibility to rejoin the two necessary operative reasons through their mutual neutralization process and to bring the discourse on the architecture as collective art. It condens