In recent years, the literature concerning the urban project in Europe has been enriched by studies and research investigating the field of design, in which numerous scientific inquiries sought to interpret the fine line between architecture and urban planning. The copious theoretical production did not correspond to the same kind of attention to the ways in which projects face/conflict with the complexity of territory and landscape in the passage from design to construction. Often we find ourselves ‘adrift’, a situation generated by unpredictable conditions that ‘disturb’ project implementation with the loss and recovery of an intended route, but which, like serendipity, the may offer the pleasure of unexpected landfalls when searching for others. Fundamentally, this is the meaning of urban design: a hoped-for state of things and, at the same time, an open work.

Giovanni Battista Cocco
The urban project adrift
Loosing and finding the route
isbn 9788862422413
book series Alleli | Research
number 9
current edition 7 / 2017
first edition 7 / 2017
language Italian/English
size 14,8x21cm
pages 192
print color
binding paperback
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the author
Giovanni Battista Cocco (1973), PhD in Architecture (Université de Paris 8), 2nd level Master in Recupero e Conservazione dell’Architettura Moderna. Attended the D.E.A. Projet architectural et urbain: théorie et dispositifs at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur...

Giovanni Battista Cocco (1973), PhD in Architecture (Université de Paris 8), 2nd level Master in Recupero e Conservazione dell’Architettura Moderna. Attended the D.E.A. Projet architectural et urbain: théorie et dispositifs at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Belleville, Paris. Visiting professor at Italian and European universities. Professor of architectural and urban design at the University of Cagliari. Author of publications on such topics as architecture for the regeneration of the landscapes of the historic and modern city, reuse and urban and architectural preservation. Lecturer at national and international seminars and conferences. Designer of architectural and urban projects. Responsible for the research group Riqualificazione urbana e la sicurezza delle periferie nella città di Cagliari, funded by the President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government, 2016.

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