Lecture at Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, ITA

Rome is an off-centre metropolis, out of an orthodox perception of time, where every single past becomes present in a continuous state of monumental contemporariness. Continuity and crisis share the same space: ancient brick walls are flanked by the anonymous “palazzine” complex of the latest years and among these the everyday madness of the city: ceaseless traffic, tourists blinded by the scorching sun, the pink roman dust settling on monuments, as Ludovico Quaroni would say. And again: traditions and languages, researches and cliches, cultures and avant-gardes, the most sacred and the vilest profane, all compose a living postcard with an inimitable capacity for self-renewal.Is there a language, a framework, to rebuild? A tradition to rethread? In an age of multiplication of images and sources of inspiration, is there something still to explore in the Roman landscape? Are those “postcards from Rome” still able to produce emotion, to inspire a future action?

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