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“LUIGI MORETTI: Lessons of SPAZIO is a great achievement and an impactful and important study of Luigi Moretti’s theoretical work. The author has not only translated into the textual content of the magazine SPAZIO but also written a detailed analytical study of the discourse of a highly cultivated Italian intellectual. The text is compelling me to reconsider the role played by the Italian Renaissance, not only with regard to Italy but also with regard to the modernisation of the entire world. As suggested by my book Studies in Tectonic Culture, my impulse has been to attempt to ground the relative autonomy of architecture in the poetics of construction rather than in Form, which surely puts me at odds with Eisenman. This work on Moretti compels me to rethink all this and this surely will take some time. However, Roberto has effectively set me off!” Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. ""The author has done a unique and superlative piece of work. Unique because it has never been undertaken before. Indeed, scholars who have addressed Moretti's artistic and cultural thought have done so with a specific generality and, so to speak, 'from a bird's eye view' – as in the case of Bucci's book, which I know, without truly penetrating the essence of Moretti's historical-critical culture. Superlative, because, with great courage and intellectual ability, the author has deeply analysed Moretti's thought, revealing how he was not actually as 'isolated' as often claimed by domestic critics, nor indeed 'backwards'. On the contrary, Roberto has highlighted its great contemporary relevance and even its 'prophetic' scope, as in the case, for example, of the conception of Parametric Architecture and Operational Research in Urban Planning, comparing them with subsequent and much later applications. Staying on topic, I particularly appreciate, and I certainly believe Moretti himself would appreciate, the author's critique of Schumacher's 'Parametricism', which could be defined as 'formalist technologism', where Parametricism itself is reduced to a cerebral search and arbitrary play of forms, a sort of computerized kaleidoscope, thereby betraying the ethical, social, and artistic representation principles of Architecture."" Tommaso Magnifico, Architect, Luigi Moretti Project Archive.

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Roberto Podda, PhD, MA, BArch, has been Associate Professor of Architecture at XJTLU since 2019. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano. His PhD in architectural and urban design dealt with morphotypological experimentation at the scale of the urban region. From 2009 to 2019, he taught at Politecnico di Milano. From 2019 to 2021, he was director of the UG programme at XJTLU. He has published numerous essays in books and journals on the topics of architectural and urban composition theory. Since 2023, he has been Director of the Sino/Italian Urban Regeneration HUB, at XJTLU School of Design.

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