Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia AF517

"The city is static, while we are on the move" Iosif Aleksandrovič Brodskij wrote this in Fondamenta degli Incurabili in 1989, on the eve of the digital revolution.
Today, 30 years later, even the city and the architecture that describes it are contaminated by the growing tension towards nomadism, the most spontaneous contemporary model of adaptation to any kind of change, social, migratory, economic, political ...
Alfonso Femia's contribution to the essay “Architecture and Nomadism”, edited by Paolo Caggiano for OAPPC Pistoia.

“To grasp the meaning of nomadism, in a contemporary context, is to understand how architecture can express coherent design solutions and which housing arrangements can be appropriate to social and environmental evolution.” AF