Il viaggio tra i luoghi

This essay describes the Palermo step in the International Seminar Villard de Honnecourt XV edition, titled "Reversing the views/ landings". The contribution investigates the theme of the journey made by the students on the path between Naples and Palermo and compared it to the complexity of today's migrations. The two cities, Naples and Palermo are places of considerable complexity for the presence of intricate cultures, where the memory and myth, landscape and archeology merge into a complex relationship between past and present. These Mediterranean cities lead us to the migrant movement as has always been in the history, in which the migrant moves from land to another, from a known original place to an unknown territory; but the place of arrival leads the migrant to meet again all those barriers or boundaries found during the route, all those men who bear the history, culture and identity. Migration, in fact, involves a change of residence, home, to look for another, challenging the boundaries. "The border, mysterious place not frequent enough. A place encountered many times in our travels, a place where it is easy move and meet, often a blind search in the discomfort " (P. Zanini). The theme of the journey through the places is a different way of doing didactics, a chance to know how to see. The journey in the Mediterranean places is present in numerous projects and studies of the Grand Tours, but also in architects durning the Modern Movement as Le Corbusier with his famous "Orienteering". The first remarkable journey was of Goethe in Palermo, arrived from the sea and described by Karl Friedrich Schinkel durning his journey in 1804, he described the architecture and landscape merged into a single graphic expression. In Palermo the lessons by Andrea Sciascia, Vincenzo Melluso, Nunzio Battaglia, different for themes and approaches, intend to describe the relationship between architecture and landscape, an essential material for the contemporary project. "The attentions that architecture, in a certain time, address to its context can have this task: to manifest an unmistakable beauty and deliver it to successive ages, as the material of an unbroken but delicate process of growth. In the tranist moments that periodically appear in the history of the city, when an urban model appears only in terms of quantity or use, this role, interpretative and anticipatory of the architecture can be fundamental [...] "(A. Ferlenga)

Lo scritto costituisce una ri essione attorno l’attività svolta a Palermo in occasione della tappa palermitana del Seminario Internazionale Villard de Honnecourt nella sua XV Edizione dal titolo “Inversione di sguardi/sbarchi”, migrazioni accoglienza, intercultura con oggetto esplorazioni progettuali sulla città di Napoli in particolare nell’ambito di Bagnoli. La città di Napoli, multietnica, infatti, rappresenta un luogo di notevole complessità per la presenza di intrecci di culture, tracciati dove memoria e mito, paesaggio e archeologia si 134 fondono in un complesso rapporto tra passato e presente. “Parlare di Napoli e a Napoli, signi ca sentirsi accanto a un luogo oltremodo storicizzato [...] ed è quello che o re la storia locale, adeguatamente intrisa di miti orientali e greco romani e poi arricchita di dettagli folcloristici. Le orme (l’adattamento di Omero di un mito fenicio) e il paesaggio di Ulisse tra Capri e il promontorio del golfo a Punta Campanella, la Sibilla cumana e l’ingresso degli imperi presso il lago d’Aveno nei dintorni dei campi Flegrei [...] Napoli emerge nelle parole di Curzio Malaparte come un sopravvissuto del mondo antico [...]. Napoli è una città sfaccettata, attaccata all’orlo dell’Europa meridionale [...] ieri il suo paesaggio di rovine rappresentava la fonte del sublime romantico (Goethe, Turner)”.1 Ricordiamo inoltre a tal proposito due scritti di Alvaro Siza e Francesco Venezia di ri essione sulla città di Napoli.