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    Technical and scientific research is constantly supported to the application of ingenuity in order to solve problems, even complex ones, in different fields of human knowledge in which ERREQUADRO operates. Obviously, the application of ingenuity, engineering, is fundamental when it comes to the realization of our architecture.
    In fact, the architecture of the third millennium will also be realized with the contribution of construction techniques identified and tested within an increasingly advanced technological research that will identify processes and methods to optimize building production, referable to the globalization aspects of our culture. However, as has been amply verified by the “radical” experiences of the 1960s and 1970s, which took to the extreme consequences the dictates and relationships between form and technology implicit in “futurist,” “constructivist,” and “functionalist” architecture, developed in the early part of the twentieth century and flowing into the international modern movement, the definition of architecture as a function of technological innovations would lead ineluctably to the disappearance of architecture itself.
  • The technological application of quantum mechanics, fractal mathematics, and who knows what other form of innovation may be introduced by scientific research, will inevitably lead, in the course of a few years, to the possibility of controlling aspects that meet the material needs of living, such as microclimate communication and orientation, achievable exclusively with immaterial elements, belonging to the “non-place,” which have nothing to do with the construction – fortunately, not even with the de-construction – of a physical space that can constitute itself as a “place” of reference to human action in the environment.
    For the physiological and psychological characteristics of Homo Sapiens this is inconceivable; in order to culturally accept a universe without architecture would require a genetic mutation of our species such that it would be able to renounce, for its own survival, the Stabilitas referred to by Plato’s Protagoras, the Cain of the Old Testament and in general, even with very different forms among them, the mythopoetics of archaic cultures, regardless of the time and space in which they manifest themselves, even those with marked nomadic characteristics for which the reference system changes frequently. The need for Stabilitas led to the founding of cities and the formation of architecture to achieve the survival of the Homo Sapiens species.
    Engineers of the third millennium have a great responsibility to identify the appropriate technique to produce, in the sense implicit in the term “póiesis,” architecture and buildings capable of handling the advanced technology that we will be able to develop. Precisely the dimension connected with the globalization of culture and knowledge lead to the search for a technical apparatus based on aspects connected with the hermeneutics of the anthropic environment and specific places. The dynamism, mutability and ephemeral character of the technology of the third millennium will not be able to affect, except marginally, the theoretical formulation of the new architecture and the new city.

Engineering

 

Technical and scientific research is constantly supported to the application of ingenuity in order to solve problems, even complex ones, in different fields of human knowledge in which ERREQUADRO operates. Obviously, the application of ingenuity, engineering, is fundamental when it comes to the realization of our architecture.
In fact, the architecture of the third millennium will also be realized with the contribution of construction techniques identified and tested within an increasingly advanced technological research that will identify processes and methods to optimize building production, referable to the globalization aspects of our culture. However, as has been amply verified by the “radical” experiences of the 1960s and 1970s, which took to the extreme consequences the dictates and relationships between form and technology implicit in “futurist,” “constructivist,” and “functionalist” architecture, developed in the early part of the twentieth century and flowing into the international modern movement, the definition of architecture as a function of technological innovations would lead ineluctably to the disappearance of architecture itself.
The technological application of quantum mechanics, fractal mathematics, and who knows what other form of innovation may be introduced by scientific research, will inevitably lead, in the course of a few years, to the possibility of controlling aspects that meet the material needs of living, such as microclimate communication and orientation, achievable exclusively with immaterial elements, belonging to the “non-place,” which have nothing to do with the construction – fortunately, not even with the de-construction – of a physical space that can constitute itself as a “place” of reference to human action in the environment.
For the physiological and psychological characteristics of Homo Sapiens this is inconceivable; in order to culturally accept a universe without architecture would require a genetic mutation of our species such that it would be able to renounce, for its own survival, the Stabilitas referred to by Plato’s Protagoras, the Cain of the Old Testament and in general, even with very different forms among them, the mythopoetics of archaic cultures, regardless of the time and space in which they manifest themselves, even those with marked nomadic characteristics for which the reference system changes frequently. The need for Stabilitas led to the founding of cities and the formation of architecture to achieve the survival of the Homo Sapiens species.
Engineers of the third millennium have a great responsibility to identify the appropriate technique to produce, in the sense implicit in the term “póiesis,” architecture and buildings capable of handling the advanced technology that we will be able to develop. Precisely the dimension connected with the globalization of culture and knowledge lead to the search for a technical apparatus based on aspects connected with the hermeneutics of the anthropic environment and specific places. The dynamism, mutability and ephemeral character of the technology of the third millennium will not be able to affect, except marginally, the theoretical formulation of the new architecture and the new city.