The book wants to analyse and integrate landscape, urbanism and architecture going from large to small scales, from macro to micro areas and from micro to macro, making a complete analysis. The topics keywords are: land-form, sensitive limits, urban geographies, land- marks, reuse and living machine; always highlighting both the natural landscape and anthropogenic. The reuse theme is pivotal, not only for the current feedback which includes preservation and recovery both of buildings and landscapes; but also because it is an opportunity to overlay, ideally, more stories, reading and traces of time, past and present. The reuse, with its targeted and specific interventions, faces memory themes and the new building or landscape life, energy, configuration and sometimes new features.

The volume is a collection of thoughts, passages, research and projects that regard the emerging question of public space. The square and its evolution takes us, from a place of urban and human relationships to a place of different collective activities in the contemporary city. This analysis can teach one to read not only the design experience and the diffusion of new models, but also the changes in the aesthetic experience of public space, in its socio-urban and architectural implications, and in its relationships between horizontal space (i.e. the square) and vertical space (the building).

One of the last works from Luigi Moretti tells us many things about his final approach to one of the most actual themes studied by the architects of the XXI century: the landscape. Here Moretti succeeded to have a fusion between "subject" and "object" designing a building whose aim is to disappear, to become landscape itself. No surprise until we see that our architect work crosses many different historical periods keeping quite unchanged his method: from the fascism to the Seventies Moretti was coherent. From the Classical monumentalism of the fascist period to the baroque approach of the Fifties his work has always moved to the direction of perception of space more than mere formalism. The Guendalina Salimei's book reveals, for the first time, how one of the main instruments for the project is the "section". Taking the Michelangelo's lesson, all the masses float above, leaving the ground express as a free form of art.