Toward a Different Habitat

In this book named Toward A Different Habitat: 36 Projects and Realizations of Luigi Pellegrin Architect are exposed the principles of Systemic Architectures and Constructions. The book consists of two parts. First Volume Toward A Different Habitat: words.Second Volume 36 Projects and Realizations of Luigi Pellegrin Architect: some exemplary designs of Luigi Pellegrin Architect.In short here the basic assumption is that nature is systemic. And that we can design and build systemic architectures and constructions beyond the form that the same architectures or constructions can take because as is well known the forms are unlimited. The result will be a form-function that doesn't have to hide behind a mask or behind a label thus revealing its essence. In this sense form follows function. The working method is organic relational functional one more time along the way opened in the past by two of the masters of Modern Architecture such as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright: the way of organic architecture. So it's still valid that nature is the best teacher natura naturans without for this reason divinizing it. Man and society are not outside nature but inside nature (Serge Moscovici 1972) being themselves nature. They are the measure of any architecture. Let us not forget.Maybe is the ultimate goal to we be able to design living architectural organisms? No because an architecture doesn't need to be a living organism at all it is another world but not a world apart not an empty and dead shell. The ultimate goal is instead to build a language of contemporary architecture simple understandable by all capable of evolving thus managing to raise the qualitative level of modern construction practice. Nothing transcendental. In the past men with two feet two hands and a head like us have succeeded: Arabs Japanese Hindus Europeans Khmers etc. So why on the Earth all of us evolved today continue to produce cities and habitats that look like cow shit squashed on a meadow? The answer to this question is contained in all the set of pages that follow. There is no slogan magic miracle flash of genius but only research and continuous work. M.L.