Abstract
M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)
Nowadays, many symptoms reveal us that we are in the middle of a
transitional period in the disciplines of architecture and urbanism. Most
of these symptoms are linguistic, as the weakness of our architectural
vocabulary facing with the complexity of contemporary urban spaces:
we still use generic, vague words, to name spatial issues; words that “slip”
on to the things, unable to catch the real meaning of the new places which
stand around us. But we don’t only need a new vocabulary. Symptoms of a
more profound disease stand in our visual culture, in the ways we usually
represent and think the urban dimension. If we take care of these visual
symptoms, usually overlooked, probably we may feel a more radical call: the
call for a new paradigm in the conceptualization of the urban phenomenon.