On March 15, 2020, one of the protagonists of architecture, Vittorio Gregotti, passed away. It was defeated by Covid-19 and with its 1,600 projects it embodied the figure of the designer, theorist and lucid critic; but also essayist, critic, teacher, columnist, polemicist. Recently, he had closed his studio, stating bitterly: "architecture no longer interests me" - and certainly not due to his advanced age, but rather due to his refusal to align himself with a society in which identical products are recognized everywhere, in which fashion seems to prevail in the global context; he said of the recent creations that they were entertainment, exhibition, obsession with communication, stage works that no longer have respect for the place, "for the dreams and desires of man". In an era now characterized by "weak thinking"2, in which everything is fragmented, Gregotti was an architect with "strong thinking", with big dreams and powerful utopias, seeking with methodological rigor a coherence with the environmental context, with the culture of the place, starting from a dialectic that involved the political and social world, giving meaning to a physical environment without ever ignoring what pre-exists. In this sense, we like to think that we can resume Gregotti's "dream" where he had interrupted it (Gregotti, 2019). This contribution intends to stimulate and push towards research conducted on technology as an applied science for good architecture that uses sustainable construction systems which, beyond good practices, strengthens the so-called "Total Designer" (Ortega, 2017) which goes outside those elitist niches of “stage” building production (to quote Gregotti).

Il 15 marzo del 2020 è scomparso uno dei protagonisti dell’architettura, Vittorio Gregotti. È stato vinto dal Covid-19 e con i suoi 1.600 progetti ha incarnato la figura del progettista, del teorico e del lucido critico; ma anche saggista, critico, docente, editorialista, polemista. Da poco tempo, aveva chiuso il proprio studio affermando amareggiato: «l’architettura non mi interessa più» - e non certo per l’età avanzata, quanto per il rifiuto di allinearsi ad una società in cui si riconoscono ovunque prodotti uguali, in cui sembra prevalere la moda verso il contesto globale; diceva delle recenti realizzazioni che fossero di spettacolo, di esibizione, di ossessione per la comunicazione, lavori da palcoscenico che non hanno più rispetto del luogo, «dei sogni e dei desideri dell’uomo». In un’epoca caratterizzata da oramai un «pensiero debole»2, in cui tutto è frammentato, Gregotti è stato un architetto dal «pensiero forte», dai grandi sogni e dalle potenti utopie cercando con rigore metodologico una coerenza con il contesto ambientale, con la cultura del luogo, a partire da una dialettica che coinvolgesse il mondo politico e sociale dando un significato a un ambiente fisico senza mai ignorare ciò che preesiste. In tal senso, ci piace pensare di poter riprendere il “sogno” di Gregotti laddove lui lo avesse interrotto (Gregotti, 2019). Questo contributo intende stimolare spingere verso una ricerca condotta sulla tecnologia come scienza applicata per buone architetture che usino sostenibili sistemi costruttivi che, oltre le good practices, rafforzi il cosiddetto “Total Designer” (Ortega, 2017) che esca all’esterno di quelle nicchie elitarie di produzione edilizia “da palcoscenico” (per dirla con Gregotti).

Angelico, E. (2023). desideratArchitettura. In La città dei desideri (pp. 12-15). Milano : Di Baio.

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Angelico, Emanuele
2023-07-01

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On March 15, 2020, one of the protagonists of architecture, Vittorio Gregotti, passed away. It was defeated by Covid-19 and with its 1,600 projects it embodied the figure of the designer, theorist and lucid critic; but also essayist, critic, teacher, columnist, polemicist. Recently, he had closed his studio, stating bitterly: "architecture no longer interests me" - and certainly not due to his advanced age, but rather due to his refusal to align himself with a society in which identical products are recognized everywhere, in which fashion seems to prevail in the global context; he said of the recent creations that they were entertainment, exhibition, obsession with communication, stage works that no longer have respect for the place, "for the dreams and desires of man". In an era now characterized by "weak thinking"2, in which everything is fragmented, Gregotti was an architect with "strong thinking", with big dreams and powerful utopias, seeking with methodological rigor a coherence with the environmental context, with the culture of the place, starting from a dialectic that involved the political and social world, giving meaning to a physical environment without ever ignoring what pre-exists. In this sense, we like to think that we can resume Gregotti's "dream" where he had interrupted it (Gregotti, 2019). This contribution intends to stimulate and push towards research conducted on technology as an applied science for good architecture that uses sustainable construction systems which, beyond good practices, strengthens the so-called "Total Designer" (Ortega, 2017) which goes outside those elitist niches of “stage” building production (to quote Gregotti).
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Angelico, E. (2023). desideratArchitettura. In La città dei desideri (pp. 12-15). Milano : Di Baio.
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