Together. Prove d'autore per la pace

The MusArc has offered architects, artists and designers from all over the world an unprecedented opportunity for reflection on this theme. And to express themselves in total freedom. Above all, to present a vision that aims to go beyond the dichotomy of peace and war and to reveal peace to be the condition of humanity.
To paraphrase T.W. Adorno, architecture has a higher conception of itself than of the society it represents. And on the other hand, art has always been a dialogue between individuals and between different peoples and it is precisely on knowledge of the other that the capacity for mutual understanding and therefore for peace is based. With the sympathy of Le Corbusier: "we have extended our sympathy to the whole of the earth and to every time." And for R. Sennet, sympathy is based on the capacity of the imagination for "the conquest of the different through a process that makes it appear familiar." "Putting yourself in the other's place" for A. Smith "signifies taking no account of the difference between yourself and the other" to the point of bringing about a momentary "displacement of the ego."
Many of the authors taking part have decided to realize a work specially for the occasion. Fist of all, Aiko Miyawaki, an artist famous for his utsurohi: often undulating tensions of metal lines that dance in the air, here drawings and signs that rest ethereally on paper.
Then Alvaro Siza, who has re-created the stereometry of his white architecture in color. And the "planet" of Richard Long, a distant view of his lines and walks. And Sol LeWitt: "if you don't seek order in the idea of chance, something is missing from the overall concept of order."
And the transparences of Toyo Ito, the flying colors of Christo & Jeanne-Claude... And more still from Eero Aarnio, David Chipperfield, Giancarlo de Carlo, Vittorio Gregotti, Hans Haacke, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Meier, Mario Merz, Ernesto Neto, Bob Noorda, Dennis Oppenheim, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, Sebastião Salgado, Ettore Sottsass, Martha Schwartz, Oswald Mathias Ungers and Achille Castiglioni: works that remain engraved in our memory, different expressions and messages that speak of our common humanity.