References

Working in our countries, Italy and Mexico, it’s very common to treat this issues, trying to use time and heritage like design tools also in everyday professional activities. In our current academic teaching experiences and investigation works, we are trying to apply these concepts to analyze big scale social housing compounds and environmental planning projects. All the works and life of the American philosopher H. D. Thoreau inspire our last projects, especially the book “Walden” contains reflections about how to live with “minimum” taking advantage of natural existing resources without waste. Another inspiring source is the work of the land-artist Hamish Fulton and his walking art performances. All housing projects of Ralph Erskine help us to define characters of a modern social Swedish Architecture, and the Smithsons researches and studies about “cluster city”, help us  to improve urban density, starting from the concept of street.