Architecture&mobility “Tradition and innovation”

architettura e mobilità the latest text by Gino Finizio on the theme of “bodies in Movement” is a streamlined yet concentrated compendium of what the present/future can hypothesise as being most up-to-date in the relationship between “static architecture” and “dynamic architecture”; exemplified by the car viewed in light of the most advanced architecture of our day. Not only does Finizio unveil some of his most original ideas about the present state of architecture and design (in particular automobile design); in this volume he also calls upon some of the most active architects/designers in the field to show how this research, which is not only conceptual, has also been carried through by the authors, as well as Finizio himself, at some of the most important professional research centres and universities […] as Finizio states “Cities appear to be in a state of chaos…. The city is accepted as being pure coexistence of objects with no visual or formal relationship, unrelated by any architectural connections […] Yet, up until now, taking a look at the most advanced architecture, we can observe some essential data that has been very clearly underlined by various scholars the author has called to testify: Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Michele De Lucchi, Frank Ghery, Alessandro Mendini, Massimiliano Fuksas, Antonio Citterio, Mario Bellini, Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Riccardo Dalisi, Isao Hosoe, Richard Sapper, Toshiyuki Kita and Nevio Di Giusto […] architecture can be described as a “metaphor of movement” “in the energy released by daring, light forms weightlessly set free” and which, according to Finizio “can be compared to those of means of transport, of automobiles and high-speed trains.