Il disvelamento dei luoghi. Un’interpretazione per il paesaggio contemporaneo

The current state of design is disorienting. The lack of adequate tools to rethink the architecture-city-territory relationship, combined with poor environmental conditions, signal a deep crisis in our modern landscape. Globalization, the blending of cultures, and mass production are eroding the unique identities of places, compromising both architecture and its relationship to the territory. Clearly, there's an imbalance between nature and its first artist – man. Man, a part of nature existing within its space, has progressively dominated it, losing the capacity for dialogue that underpins all artistic thought. It is essential to counteract this reckless and cynical reduction of meaning. We must uncover paradigms that are currently obscured, rediscover synthesis processes, and restore the essential wholeness that allows us to genuinely understand our landscapes. One potential approach to reconnecting with our contemporary landscape involves examining its earliest origins. This can help return the significance of things to their necessary conditions and the elements that birthed them – a process possible through exploring archaic thought as a metaphor for revelation. This thought presents a resistance to the passage of time, a continual updating of the present without losing its original essence. It's an ahistorical, atopic, timeless category. In this context, it becomes an abstraction, a conceptual analogy with the power to attract and inspire conscious action. The origin of all creation, the experience of divine harmony, the foundation of every fruitful endeavor lies in an original tension - the basis of all poetry. The stimulus for landscape design comes from an emotional response originally caused by the place itself. Archaic thought, timeless and beyond temporal boundaries, reveals this, seeking that which is eternally current.