Archaeologies : awakening the past

Alongside a crucial examination of the ‘factual’ data and accurate evaluations of the results of the excavations, it is imperative to try to establish a new connection between the ‘site ‘ and the deep intimate feel of subjective experience. Thus, architecture for archaeology proposes itself as a ‘device’. It is something that ‘interposes’ but also ‘prepares’ both to the physical and metaphysical experience in which the myth and the dream can unfold all their evocative power. With the caution of renouncing, to some extent, to a precise notion of ‘time’ and ‘space’, the terms ‘Archaic’ and ‘Contemporary’ can be joined and revealed in architectural forms. The civilizations of the ancestral Mediterranean past with their myths and figures re-emerge in the Nuragic sanctuary of the ‘giant-heroes’ of Mont’e Prama in Sardinia (Italy)