Vittorio Gregotti1952 - Graduated from the Milan Polytechnic with a de-gree in architecture.

Opened his practice in 1974Gregotti Associati Interna-tional

Gregotti wrote in the maga-zine Casabella, of which he was director for many years – led the firm to win national and international competi-tions and to be awarded projects for interventions in areas of particular environ-mental, urban and historic importance.

The Territory of Architecture

Key points:• • Landscape as aesthetic object• Theories on the formal aspects of the

city• Sociological interpretation• Morphological dynamic of territory• Landscape tradition and the environ-

mental defense• Figure of territory and disciplinary Ital-

ian tradition• Reading issues relate to environmental

sets• A catalogue of formal approaches• Nature of drawing at geographical

scale• Architecture, environment, nature

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Landscape as aesthetic Object:• Anthropogeographical landscape can be an aesthetic object• Territorial shapes and recognizeable figures.

“The New York landscape not only is made familiar but also visible from dozens of thrillers that we see and that offer it to us as backdrop to the sto-ry.”

Theories on the Formal Aspects of the City:“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”

“These objectives are schematically described in terms of maximization of choices and high capacity of interaction: the city offers the system that we known is the more adaptable, to minimize the social control, to extend the freedom of work in terms of possibility of choice, union organizzaton etc., it makes easier social mobility, more differenciated the choice of services and leisure, higher the level of education and health systems”

Sociological Interpretation:characters, forms, and structures as a communication system comparable to a specific lan-guage.

“This region or formal district, which we will discuss farther about, regard-less of its function, as a whole, can better offer itself to an analysis in terms of linguistic structuralism. It includes several language declinations and several environmental districts as well, not necessarily coincident with geo-graphical classifications, but involving the several characters and compre-hensive meaning of the different “places”, on the level of transformations determined anyway in the environment by the human been.”

Morphological Dynamic of Territory:• The elements of transformation in the course of time of the figure of land-

scape

Landscape Tradition and the Environmental Defense:“...it’s important to remember that the notion of landscape as materialoperable by architecture, which exceeds the concept of “garden”, was founded in the late sixteenth century and powerfully used as structuring element of the baroque city.”

“Space, green, are missed in the city and this contributes to increase their value. On the one hand, nature becomes a public park, on the other one the city tends to immerge itself in the nature as a garden cit, to ideally as well as hygienically regenerate itself.”

Figure of Territory and Disciplinary Italian Tradition:“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”

Reading Issues Relate to Environmental Sets:“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”

Catalogue of Formal Approaches:“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”

Nature of Drawing at Geographical Scale:“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”

Architecture, Environment, Nature:

“City represents the most significant effort on the part of human civilization to a complete transformation of the natural environment, the most radical shift from the state of nature to the one of culture by creating a “microcli-mate” particularly right to the development of some fundamental relation-ships for human life.”