Reclaiming the Public Space

 
Architecture has aspects of arrangement.

Arrangement can be dictated or it just happens as a mix of events as time passes.

My sense of being is rooted in my ancestry. Buildings carry lives through the times and it is unnecessary to ask whether we are better or worse than our ancestors. Let me quote Petrarch:

"...long outlive me, as my soul hopes and wishes, there is perhaps a better age in store; this slumber of forgetfulness will not last for ever. After the darkness has been dispelled, our grandsons will be able to walk back into the pure radiance of the past."

All times come alive in art.

A place full history connects people. It draws people out of their own heads into the flowing world of facts. This dramatic predisposition of civic life is what reclaiming the public space is all about.

 
Rome, 18 5 2007