Reading Built Spaces. Cities in the making and future urban form. Book of Abstracts. 4th ISUFitaly International Conference, Bari 26-29 September 2018.

The International Conference ISUFITALY 2018 will be an opportunity to discuss the theme of the ‘city in the making’, both through the analytical-scientific component that looks at its formation, and in the perspective of its future transformation as a response to a required change to which every urban organism make references to its survival. It is in continuity with last year’s conference (ISUFITALY 2017 - ‘Learning from Rome’ - Rome, 23-24 February) in which many critical issues regarding the development of the historical city were discussed and questions about the contemporary project were asked. The study of the built spaces - result of the anthropic activity - distinguished by scales, the objective of the present initiative, will allow us to interpret the relationships that are established between the different parts of which reality is constituted. In a phase, like the current one, characterized by an uncertainty of orientations and choices expressing the structural condition of crisis in which civilization flows, and with it the entire world of architecture, try to reconstruct urban phenomena with the mechanics of in the making it means to search for an anthropic act that should not be perceived only as a set of distinct, incoherent and temporally discontinuous moments, but tries to capture ‘unitarily’ the dialectic of transformations (territorial, urban, aggregative, building) through the relationship of necessity that every moment establishes with what precedes and with what follows. In the making is therefore a process. Space-time relationship that invests every human activity aimed at solving culturally distinct existential unknowns.