The centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere

Abstract

The current issue of the magazine is going to consider the role of several expressions of cultural diversity in the epoch of globalization that, on one side have contributed to promoting and sharing, under many aspects, a variety of cultural phenomena, but on the other have tended to indifferently assimilate them, consequently contributing to the erasure of their intrinsic differences. The progression of such a zeroing process, the one that Kenneth Frampton called Critical Regionalism, represents today a forcefully resurfacing phenomenon, contrasting somehow the wide spreading of a more linear and global development, that evidently, today more than ever, has demonstrated its inability not only to guarantee a better world but rather to be harmful to the future of the planet.

Keywords

• regionalismo critico
• smart city
• global architecture
• kenneth frampton