Il patrimonio moderno: tradizione rinnovata e avanguardia riformatrice nel contesto culturale plastico-murario ed elastico-ligneo

The article attempts to reflect on the dialectic that animates critical opinions on the recognition of the character of architecture in the modern transitional phase distinguished by geographic-cultural areas. The initial questioning of the sense of historicity, investigated through the judgments of some thinkers, tries to cast a glance at the relationship that binds the past to the present in its authentic condition of truth, recognized in the identity perspective that persists even beyond the passage of time. The recognition of the established characters in the Mediterranean architectural-linguistic culture (plastic-masonry) and in the Central-Nordic culture (elastic-ligneous) explains the phenomenology that has connoted the transition to the modern differently manifested because of the nature of the places in which it persists, respectively, the heavy “masonry” and light “discrete” essence, generated by a dialectic that tends to reveal the self-conscious contribution aimed at preserving the value of autochthony, proposed – in these notes – through the critical thinking of some of the main author of the time.