La discriminate progettuale tra territorio e città

Looking at the Italian context, architectural design on the architectural and urban scale has been able to make use of a broad and consolidated framework of experiences, up to the occurrence of school traditions bearing original theoretical contributions which were followed by a limited but demonstrative design application. However, today, in the face of this disciplinary legacy, the destructuring phenomenologies of urban and territorial transformation are imposing an at least partial change in the interpretative categories that guide planning. Ontologically, to what extent can we still say that the city is still a city and its territory can constitute its main factor of relationship? The theater of operations that the project has in front of it would then seem to require an epistemological diversification in the design of the city and the territory, albeit in a common cognitive reading that compares its contradictions and potential.