Studio Genta Architetture
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ABSTRACT
Far from being a discipline that attempts an organic perception of the world, urban planning drastically reduces the human experience to a narrow selection of basic functions and leaves, then, other unrelated figures to fill the gaps, to bridge the physical impossibility of a paper grid with that multitude of experiences that moulded cities and civilizations for millennia. In other words: the bigger the scale considered, the further the poetry. In this framework, architecture has always expressed through the centuries its most holistic visions through paintings and sketches because, once free from the limiting canons and regulations of the discipline, can really express to the fullest extent the spirit of its time. For this reason, architecture should first be a product of the entire pool of sensory experiences, well before being even a first draft of a project on paper, for it to be able to really make an impact of whatsoever scale. Using six of Calvino’s very own Invisible Cities as starting point, this volume contains the experience of a traveller going through six different places in far-away lands, located in a not-so-far-away future and inspired by very real places of today’s world.
