LIBRI DI MARCELLA APRILE

Edoardo Caracciolo può essere considerato un riferimento per molti docenti e molte discipline della Facoltà di Architettura di Palermo. Il testo, concentrandosi sullo studio di una figura tanto rilevante, intende ricostruirne una memoria, consapevole degli accadimenti, delle attenzioni teoriche, dell’architettura, dell’urbanistica, e si propone di scoprire nelle radici comuni che Caracciolo rappresenta le ragioni che fanno da spalla e da premessa alla complessa realtà contemporanea.

The notion of landscape and the techniques for landscape design must necessarily be based on two principal regulatory provisions, the European Landscape Convention and in Italy the law on cultural heritage and landscape. Consideration must also be given to what is meant by the term ‘landscape’ in normal and specialist parlance and to the nature of the training of landscape architects, because it is from all this that the ambiguities and misunderstandings that surround the notion of landscape originate. Consideration must also be given to the relations between planning and real and local transformations, because the contents and procedures for the formulation of designs depend on them. Landscape design must in fact construct systems of complex relationships, attribute new iconographic and economic values to places, put together natural and artifi cial, mineral and vegetable, material and intangible, real and virtual elements together.