picture from    G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980,  edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma -   Città e progetto 1.  Collana di Architettura diretta da   Francesco Moschini 3D reconstruction

Alessandro Anselmi, Santa Severina, Calabria, asilo nido.  Domus  623 / dicembre 1981 . … There's a new way for architecture where all the figurative patrimony is placed «horizontally» in the field of our interests, as a set of possible choices for «logical» solutions to issues not only in the preservation of that particular heritage but also for the mutations into completely new compositional orders. An issue that places itself beyond the methodology of the Modern Movement in its traditional meaning, a «stylistic» passing that considers that movement in the same group of all other traditions, being mutated the point of view as a «functional» result to the new figurative reality. If we imagine all the qualities of tradition placed «horizontally» in our set of interests, our architecture will become a proper subset of logical choices, not in simple chronological nor accidental order, for the development of the modern language. Choices are made thr...

sketch of the Parabita Cemetery, Alessandro Anselmi […] The human and cultural disintegration of our age doesn’t lead to a generic extension of issues and responsibilities but, in a vast extent, to a better specification. And we mean the close connection between a vision — which tends to describe the development arc of social formation and architectural activity as a whole — and an operative attitude that tends to separate in that process the single abstract moment of compositional research. That moment appears to us as a chain-like succession of logical abstractions, rings of a formation and justification of an architectonical language as a «form of thinking». From the linguistic recognition of architectonical activity to the satisfaction of human necessities through social assimilation: this is the «way forward»; from the transformation of the perception under the weight of artistic and extra-artistic context (social, economical and scientific) to the ...

picture from    G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980,  edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma -   Città e progetto 1.  Collana di Architettura diretta da   Francesco Moschini 3D reconstruction