Reconnaissance: Immersions into the Real. Finding, Finding Oneself. Life in the Hyblæans at Palazzolo Acreide

believe that designing is a form of critical transcription of a personal knowledge of the world. A consciousness, subjective and autobiographical, that takes on the responsibility of associating to what already exists a possibility of development and projection into the future. A vision, therefore, of a world that must always change to be an extension of ourselves and that is a manifestation of a will to take possession of space. Changing the world always, yes, but to bring reality a little closer to its intrinsic expressible potential, through the pursuit of an unattainable perfection that we are constantly chasing. That potential perfection consists, for us, in a balance between opposing tensions: the manifestations of nature with its processes and its physical and material results, on the one hand, and the necessary actions of contrast that man devises to find what he recognizes as a possibility of the domestic and resistant to the impervious natural, on the other.