AR MAGAZINE 125/126. Luigi Moretti. Forma, struttura, poetica della modernità

With the immense digitalization process of the Moretti Magnifico Archive, - which has permitted the acquisition of some 40,000 documents of varying formats and typologies conserved by Tommaso Magnifico, Luigi Moretti's nephew - the Ordine Architetti Roma's intention is to make an important contribution to design culture in Italy as it was perceived through the eyes of a great Master.. This issue is a story about Luigi Moretti whose journey took him from the Roman School of Architecture to the theory of parametrism, a theory that anticipated numerous contemporary themes and poetics: parametric architecture - an architectural -philosophicalspatial concept - was in fact created by Moretti before Zaha Hadid. The story told in this issue begins with Luigi Moretti's relationship with history - a key to discovering the present - and progresses by looking at his designs and built works, his dreams that became reality and those that remained on paper; his reflections on science and mathematics at the service of architecture with a view toward constructing a territorial scale of architecture; the relationship between art and architecture - with the galleria Spazio - and the constant analyses of the profound structures regulating the making of architecture; narratives, writings, numerous unpublished texts present in the archive, words written in notebooks and sketchbooks, on pages dense with sketches and drawings; the review Spazio with prefigured and anticipated many of the themes also dear to Bruno Zevi: all of this is present in the archive's documents, with their incredible vitality and exceptional eclecticism that confirm Luigi Moretti's important role in the history of Italian architecture. The numerous contributions published in this double issue of AR MAGAZINE explore these and other themes emerging from the study of the Archivio Moretti Magnifico.