MARKET

Trade and the city are inextricably linked by the most remote stages of our very existence. The market is the architectural typology or model or archetype that secretes the dogmas and dynamics of these two ancestral elements and sanctions their union. It has always marked the daily life in the city and is defined as the most archaic form of relationship between architecture and commerce. A place of exchange knowledge discovery and not a non-lieu. The market represents a space of experiential exchange as well as merely commercial elevating itself to a sensitive space like a place full of meaning and strongly identified. The interest in this phenomenon is dictated by its very morality and form of expression making it a guarantor of human relations promoting direct and genuine relationships in an era now increasingly digitalized and mediated such as the shopping mall. Moreover the market becomes a catalyst of urban elements: a node that is composed of public space commerce relationships memory. Key words for a conscious society and an intellectual architecture that survives in a rapidly mutating society.