Esercizi di analogia: Citazione, variazione, riferimento

The Analogy Exercises are those proposed to the student-architects as a tool for knowledge and invention of architecture and for approaching the project. Architectures from other times and other places have been summoned to Favignana, Agrigento and Pompeii to experiment with the use of analogy as a composing technique. In the bi-univocal relationship of mutual nourishment that exists, in Architecture, between Theory and Doing, the work with the students was an opportunity to verify some general propositions about an oriented point of view of looking at our discipline and some of its fundamental terms. In turn, the propositions - which in the book now precede the exercises - were clarified through the project exercise.