Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo Rossi

Abstract

The present paper tries to highlight certain characters of the Architecture of Holy Well starting from the Sardinian experience assumed as one of the first excellent signs of the architecture of Rite in the Mediterranean. In the Pagan rites, mostly than into the Roman-Christian subsequent experiences, the role of nature, the divination of its resources but also its figurative interpretation, they entered to belong to the idea of space to the point that the Architecture of Well could be considered as the ritual Sardinian Architecture’s crowning point, at least until the Basilica period. So, the paper is to be seen over the track already outlined by a certain Italian culture that sees the architecture as a continuous experience which has his roots int the most archaic spatial manifestations and also sees the rite as the first design form of architecture.

Keywords

• templi a pozzo
• pozzo sacro
• acqua
• archetipo
• discesa