Dell'assemblare. Analogie della tettonica nuragica nel progetto contemporaneo

The paper investigates the constructive code of Nuragic architecture in Sardinia, regarded by Francesco Venezia as the most significant cultural repository of the archaic period. Its aim is to identify in the act of assembling a frequency, an elementary artistic gesture, and a compositional technique that offers a renewed interpretation of Sardinian prehistory – often overshadowed by a pathological rhetoric dominated by archaeology. This archaic recurrence heralds a certain stance that can be pursued in the contemporary culture of architectural design. The prehistoric assembly, a poietic act of composing, evokes typological-morphological configurations that Nuragic architecture anchored at the moment of its erection. These configurations remain lucidly narrated today, despite the architecture’s exceptional state of temporal suspension. Indeed, the tectonic space of the Nuragic is not the result of an apparent stereotomic process that physically carves the lithic material, akin to the sculptural experiments of Chillida, but rather employs the repetition of elements around a form to metaphorically suggest the idea of a cavity. This additive construction through stone blocks – by fragments, according to principles of juxtaposition, reasoned arrangement, weighted superposition, and composition of parts to figuratively evoke a stable mass – positions the Nuragic as a wise paradigm of where and how to place. These themes can be analogically resonate into certain contemporary architectural design experiences.