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Urban Morphology Following The Muratorian Tradition

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“DeğişKent” Değişen Kent, Mekân ve Biçim
Türkiye Kentsel Morfoloji Araştırma Ağı II. Kentsel Morfoloji Sempozyumu
ISBN: 978-605-80820-1-4

Giuseppe Strappa

Sapienza University of Rome
gstrappa@yahoo.com
Urban Morphology Following The Muratorian Tradition

Following Muratorian Tradition

 

 

 

The method of reading and design the built landscape I will briefly present you here, draw from studies taking place in Rome in the interwar period by scholars as Gustavo Giovannoni, Giovan Battista Milani, Arnaldo Foschini and continued by Saverio Muratori.
For the method I propose, the Roman School heritage is relevant mostly for notions as history’s centrality in built environment interpretation and the coincidence of reading and design. Architectural “redesign” was (and is) in fact considered as a tool to transmit the notion of process and organism intended as an “integrated, self-sufficient correlation of complementary elements expressing a unitary aim”. (Strappa, 2014).
Unlike other Italian schools, such as Aldo Rossi’s and Carlo Aymonino’s ones, the Muratorian school considers the critical reading of built reality as the design itself.
Some affinities with this method can be recognized in researches conducted within the Birmingham University, where a whole geographers school, coordinated by Jeremy Whitehand, formed on M.R.G. Conzen teaching (for several aspects close to Muratorian school) has meet a particular fertile ground of confrontation.
Perhaps the closest research, in Turkey, to this school is due to Sedad Hakkı Eldem, an architect born in Istanbul and of international culture, who has long studied the building types of Turkish architecture. Eldem’s abstraction process in Turkish House Types is, in fact, the invention of an “universal category” which has a general and generative value, out of its own local definition. His abstract plan type is explored through the study of the planimetric organization of sofa as the constituting the central element of the distributive space and the focal, symbolical point of the traditional house. Eldem refers explicitly to the Turkish architectural tradition and derives morphological general considerations from it.
I believe that an useful definition that Eldem would share is that “Urban morphology is the study of urban form interpreted as the visible aspect of a structure”. Consequently urban morphology study is referred to the interpretation of the urban landscape as a structure in which each part is linked to the others, and to the knowledge of the urban environment not just through the perception of it but as the visible aspect of the territorial structure.      ………………..

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The method of reading and design the built landscape I will briefly present you here, draw from studies taking place in Rome in the interwar period by scholars as Gustavo Giovannoni, Giovan Battista Milani, Arnaldo Foschini and continued by Saverio Muratori.
For the method I propose, the Roman School heritage is relevant mostly for notions as history’s centrality in built environment interpretation and the coincidence of reading and design. Architectural “redesign” was (and is) in fact considered as a tool to transmit the notion of process and organism intended as an “integrated, self-sufficient correlation of complementary elements expressing a unitary aim”. (Strappa, 2014).

 

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G.STRAPPA, M. IEVA, N. MARZOT – THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF PROCESS MORPHOLOGY. ROOTS, METHODS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

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G.STRAPPA, M. IEVA, N. MARZOT

THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF PROCESS MORPHOLOGY.
ROOTS, METHODS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

In  SAJ, s e r b i a n a r c h i t e c t u r a l j o u r n a l, VOL.15, 2023  Editor Vladan Djokić

 

 

 

A. THE ORIGINS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES IN ITALY
Giuseppe Strappa
Particularly in the current conditions, I believe, it could be useful to go back to reflecting on the roots of morphological studies in Italy as they are, in fact, the evidence of a concrete approach to the architectural design based on logical and didactically transmissible bases. These studies were aimed, especially in the Roman School, at the formation of general and shared methods derived from the reading of built reality and were aimed at the positive study of how it could be transformed. Studying them is useful, precisely in a period like the present one in which, on the one hand, morphology studies are gradually assuming an increasingly abstract and independent drift from design and, on the other, professional practice is aimed, instead, at the marketing of architecture through interpretations based on the perception and spectacular communication of the results.
The studies from which the researches on the formative processes of the urban form in the Italian area have been developed are above all known, abroad, through the texts of Gianfranco Caniggia. It is also known that these derive from the teachings of Saverio Muratori, whose texts, however, are less known for having never been translated into English. Even less known is the fact that the origin of this school of thought dates back much earlier, at least to the interwar period and to the studies of innovators such as Gustavo Giovannoni, Giovan Battista Milani, Enrico Calandra and others. The common thread that binds these researches, developed largely through teaching in the Faculty of Architecture, is the “reading” of the built reality which not only has the project as its aim but, in many respects, is itself a project.

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U+D n.20 TERRITORIO E CITTA’ – Editoriale

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 Leggere il territorio.
Prendersi cura del territorio

Giuseppe Strappa

Una riflessione responsabile sulla trasformazione della nozione di territorio, credo, dovrebbe oggi tener conto due condizioni fondamentali.
La prima è la percezione sincronica che abbiamo del mondo costruito, in un contesto dominato dal presente. Percorsi, insediamenti, aree produttive, fanno tutti parte di uno stesso ambiente contemporaneo, le cui ragioni formative sembrano appartenere a un insieme di problemi distanti dalla vita reale. In questa compresenza di tutte le cose, le città coesistono, indistinte, col loro hinterland, col territorio che le circonda e che dovrebbe spiegarle, con le infrastrutture che le annodano.
Sulla constatazione che città e territorio siano, di fatto, la stessa cosa si è sviluppata un’intera letteratura, almeno a partire dall’idea proposta da La città in estensione di Giuseppe Samonà (1976). Punto di vista allora senz’altro utile, ma oggi inattuale per non tener conto della progressiva urbanizzazione di ogni area del nostro pianeta (con le relative polarizzazioni e marginalizzazioni) che forse è la vera chiave di lettura di un fenomeno di concentrazione che sembra contraddire i miti della delocalizzazione in un nuovo universo digitale.
Soprattutto, questa nuova visione sincronica della realtà costruita sembra del tutto estranea alla lettura del divenire storico del territorio. Lettura, ritengo, fondamentale e non eludibile, a partire dalla considerazione elementare che ogni fenomeno si spiega con la sua origine e trasformazione: prima l’uomo si
muove, cammina, migra, traversa crinali e fondovalle di luoghi dei quali acquista coscienza attraverso la reiterazione dei percorsi, quindi si ferma, stabilisce le aree di pertinenza di una comunità (aree culturali) e costruisce gli insediamenti.

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