Homeward : caratteri, strategie compositive poetiche dell’abitare

The volume collects essays prepared by the author starting from the occasion of some lectures held at the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo. Together with the iconographic apparatus, they are architectural stories that testify to the possible search for an “ideal” text. The topics are close to the classics of teaching, representative works and basic issues of the project, space, typology.There is a background trace that holds the masters represented here together and that can be found in their works. Everyone of them had a great passion for classical architecture. From the most distant in time to those closest to us, there has been a transmission of issues, principles and teachings in a similar way to lineages, along plots that can be found in filigree. In short, everything that concerns the link of opportunity of the building with the specific circumstances that welcome it, situation, destination, stylistic choices, needs of the program, contributes to defining the character of an architecture.In this collection of writings, through the exhibition and commentary of some exemplary homes, a possible way is outlined towards the architectural project far from the clamor of fashion and the din of contemporaneity, a way home.