The Ingenio website publishes an article by Andrea Dari reflecting on the reading of La città scritta (Quodlibet 2016) by Stefano Boeri, originally written as a doctoral thesis and dedicated to key figures in Italian urban planning such as Aymonino, Gregotti, Rossi, Secchi, and De Carlo.
From the book’s synopsis:
“The published book is titled La città scritta (The Written City) and reflects on the way we architects write about cities—or better said, write cities—through our visions and our projects. It discusses the ‘internal city’ of Aldo Rossi, Vittorio Gregotti, and Carlo Aymonino (the authors of the three books of 1966), but also speaks of two other inventors of cities in stone and on paper who played an important role in my emotional education (because cities, as we know, love and hate one another with the same emotions we feel): Bernardo Secchi and Giancarlo De Carlo.”
The physical city thus becomes a palimpsest on which millions of anonymous pencils scratch new lines every day: a jar left on a windowsill, a shadow cast across the sidewalk, a spontaneous party in a shared courtyard. The architectural phrase—be it a street layout, the alignment of arcades, or the planned emptiness of a park—is constantly reinterpreted, spoken with new accents, sometimes even contradicted.
To read the full article: https://www.ingenio-web.it/articoli/scrivere-la-citta-vivente-quando-l-abitare-diventa-rilettura