Abstract
City, territory, architecture. Three words to supersede a dichotomy: between city and architecture, city and territory, and also architecture and territory. If considered two at a time, these words tend to emphasise their diversity more than their complementarity, as they are also positioned at each end of a range of states of affairs (things). The choice of a title with three words is also a critical reflection as regards antonymous concepts that today have invaded the debate on human settlement. We are thinking, for example, of city and environment or, more in general, nature and artifice. The sequence in which the three words of the title are pronounced is dictated neither by scale nor by a hierarchy, hence the second word, territory , does not follow on but is inserted, as an element common to the others, like a system of relations, an intermediate space , that presses for a reciprocal transformation of the worlds of meaning the three words evoke.
Highlights
The environmental dimension find it difficult to be incorporated in the process of disciplinary construction for space design, due to the tension between the moral imperative environmental sustainability has generated and disciplinary construction
A hindrance to the dialectical development - in a truly projectual sense - of this tension between moral imperative of sustainability and disciplinary contribution is represented by the fact that space design continues to be objectoriented, denying the search for process-oriented approaches capable of considering the entirety of the relations between urban development and environmental processes
It is a necessary dialectical tension since the disciplinary foundations of space design are increasingly required to interact with the problems and perspectives the environmental dimension has opened up in the contemporary spatial condition
Summary
Understood in this way, the concept of intermediate space denotes the symbolic-practical structure around which a society may recognise itself: not just or so much as a border area in the territorial sense as, rather, a terrain of cultural and disciplinary exchange, an attempt to cast off the established mental and cultural systems. The territory is the space in which the city of places re-emerges in the city of flows, recalling the inseparability of the biological and cultural dimensions in our relationship with the land, the unity between nature and spirit, which Luigi Mazza (2014) refers to in his analysis of the influence of planning on the formation of new concepts of citizenship and common goods.
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