Il Senso Del Tempo

Luigi Moretti

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric architecture, published in 1971–1972, in the first issue of the magazine MOEBIUS, directed by his friend Giulio Roisecco. This book rediscovers Moretti's personal impact on international architectural theory through thoughtful comments that shed light on the architect's modernity and original approach. Although Moretti is an architect renowned for his projects and buildings, his theoretical essays are less well-known. The aim of this book is therefore to explore Moretti's theoretical work, which covers many topics, including pictorial art, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, music, cinema, poetry, mathematics, computer science, parametricity. In addition to the translation from Italian to English, the book contains reproductions of the original articles, accompanied by a series of essays of critical commentary and updated interpretations that show new ways of approaching, reading, and understanding the foundations of current architectural theory and its progress over the last 50 years. This book approaches Moretti's thought from a new perspective, with the aim of reconsidering the originality of this brilliant and visionary architect who was intellectually ostracised for many years due to political and ideological contingencies, even though he personified the ideal of the 'Renaissance man' in modern times. A re-reading of Moretti's work is more justified today than has ever been before, both to reconnect the threads with contemporaneity and to make his intensity and farsightedness of vision known to researchers, teachers, and students working in the areas of architecture and design theory, technology, and art today.

STORIA E COMUNICAZIONE 8NCONSCIA

Jai-Kai De Olgiate Olona / Hai-Kai Da Olgiate Olona

La raccolta di poesie Haikai da Olgiate Olona di Angel Aguirre è la sequenza di storie che ricalcano “tratti” o squarci di meditazioni. È la poetica dei piccoli segnali, delle evocatrici memorazioni sonoro-visive, delle frustrazioni cerebrali che catalizzano emozioni, nostalgie per un qualcosa di irrimediabilmente perduto. La frontiera, tra realtà e creazione, tra esperienza e invenzione è l’essenza stessa della scrittura poetica: una frontiera mobile, incerta, mai defi nitiva. Profondamente romantico, Aguirre crea spazi che vivono di se stesso, dei propri umori e torpori, delle proprie luci e, nei propri ristagni d’ombra, delle prospettive date e negate, dei crolli, delle impennate improvvise, dei vertiginosi slanci rifi utati. Legato appassionatamente alle figure umane, ai loro effimeri e struggenti destini, al loro transito eccitato e confuso, Aguirre identifi ca il tempo vero della poesia, ovvero, il tempo dell’aggrovigliato fl usso dell’esistenza.