Il divenire del nodo nel tempo e nello spazio: la costruzione logica degli annodamenti

• Main Author: Giusi Ciotoli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2020-10-01
• Series: Histories of Postwar Architecture
• Subjects: morfologia urbana; tipologia edilizia; teoria dell’architettura
• Online Access: https://hpa.unibo.it/article/view/11611

The book “Knottings. The specialization of urban fabric in the formative process and in the architectural design” pursues the aim of understanding the contemporary city, trying to detect from the urban history and from the most authentic needs of men, architectural shapes that are still representative of society. “Knottings” are defined as a typological category in which urban or territorial paths are strictly connected with the urban fabric. The disciplinary approach based on the study of these phenomena is dealt with logical (instead of chronological) order by selecting the main typological characters that can be common in different morphologies. The book is able to awake the interest of the architects for the theme of the square, conceived as a dialectic space, in which the spontaneous processes and the design will can still find an ideal synthesis.