Unity of Architectural Organism and Urban Form

The Sixties were inaugurated with the Olympic Games, presenting the world with a new image of Rome: a city that was more modern, more efficient and definitively freed of the fascist period. The decade appeared (and not only in the Italian capital city) as a time of great political and cultural turmoil – and it was precisely the Faculty of Architecture in Rome that set one of the main stages for this struggle. The student movement began a process of profound questioning and transformation of the educational system. The teaching of Saverio Muratori and Ludovico Quaroni in the School of Architecture of Rome are the main protagonists of that transformation in the teaching system. The paper discusses an “active” kind of teaching that is still very much alive in the schools of Rome, namely the teachings of Muratori and Quaroni, which inseparably conjugate form of the city and architectural organism.