"The structure of actual city is still able to adapt in time to our changing needs"
At a smaller scale, the dialectic between the housing unit and city, between the right to individual expression and the preservation of collective public space can perhaps be resolved today by a careful design of "transitions" which can insert a degree of freedom between different scales, between the different systems which need an "interface" to communicate.
The European city needs to metabolize better the mosaic of subcultures which increasingly characterizes it, accepting into its well-organized body the vital anomalies that bring the metropolitan dimension to life, according to the prophetic words of Josef Frank in 1931: "The new architecture will be born of the whole bad taste of our period, of its intricacy, its variety and sentimentality; it will be a product of all that is alive and experienced first hand: at last an art of the people, not for the people."
The European city needs to metabolize better the mosaic of subcultures which increasingly characterizes it, accepting into its well-organized body the vital anomalies that bring the metropolitan dimension to life, according to the prophetic words of Josef Frank in 1931: "The new architecture will be born of the whole bad taste of our period, of its intricacy, its variety and sentimentality; it will be a product of all that is alive and experienced first hand: at last an art of the people, not for the people."