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Regions of Adjacencies: understanding and designing urban conditions






David Hockney, Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, 1980




In this ten-point text, Roberto Damiani proposes an alternative, “wasp-orchid” approach to the urban phenomenon, suggesting the necessity to provide architecture and urban design with a model that is more efficient and alternative to traditional interpretations of the city, such as the ones of “archipelago” and “aggregated object”.

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Text By: Roberto Damiani