Morphology as a Tool for the Articulation of the New Metropolitan Landscapes

Abstract

Faced with the “New Metropolitan Landscape”, it is imperative to define an approach to design capable of observing phenomena at different scales (from the geographical of the territory to the human of architecture); to bring multiple knowledge to synthesis; but above all, to deal with the processes of transformation in an adaptive way, tackling in an integrated way decision-making, implementation and management aspects; to work, therefore, along a multidimensional and dilated time line to include different cycles and natural and anthropic processes.

This approach refers to an inclusive field of research and discussion, involving nature and human sciences, architecture, engineering, planning, geography, geology, botany, agronomy, anthropology, aesthetics, ethnography, art history, ecology, landscape ecology …Reformulating instruments derived from studies on urban morphology and building typology in the 1960s, it crosses research programmes open to very different languages, interpretations and description techniques, which address the issue of transformation with a renewed focus on the difficult dialectic between nature and artifice that characterises the contemporary world.