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Nicola Delledonne, architect architectural visualizer
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If architecture is expected to express particular meanings, and to play a culturally active role, then it has to become nowadays a shared language again. Although this statement might strike as too naive, we have to acknowledge that a new path towards a common understanding of architecture can only start from a minimum threshold of intelligibility. On one hand, such an assumption implies a criticism towards the current architectural production, most of which is not based on the notion of language, but on an inspired, rhapsodic and unfathomable gesture. On the other hand, this threshold cannot be found through a traditional concept of style with its conventional shapes and signs: if the idea of collective style once existed, now it can be considered lost. Starting from the obvious statement that nobody can invent a language ex-abrupto - since a language is not invented but simply spoken - it might be useful to take into consideration an evocative theory whose objective is focused on re-composing the fragments issued from the explosion of the common architectural language. These fragments - that today look like a heap of shards - should be re-composed by the architect in new contexts where the parts of the original meaning clash with each other and they reach new levels of sense. It might be that very soon a new generation of architects will be able to arrive to a sort of architecture parlante, something completely renewed in its purposes and in its methods....
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