Interrupted cities: l’interruzione come strumento compositivo

Abstract

Interrupted cities is an international research project that we started2020 three years ago together with Tom Rankin, Giorgio Verdiani and Paolo Pineschi. The project was titled as an evident homage to Piero Sartogo's Roma Interrotta, but - starting with Nicosia, the city interrupted by the division into two of the island of Cyprus in 1974 - interrupted city has explored other instances of interruption, such as the division between center and periphery, and also the interruption of the life of a city following a seismic event. This is above all the meaning of this Camerte seminar. The City of Camerino, in my opinion, must be reborn as it was and where it was, and cannot instead be interrupted by a short-sighted policy of rebuilding elsewhere, elsewhere, collecting profits. In the city interrupted by the earthquake, we met during the XXIX International Seminar and Prize of Architecture and Urban Culture, coordinated by Giovanni Marucci, to investigate the interruption as a compositional tool. To deal with the subject I will use the rhetorical figure of the hidden metaphor: where a figure that refers to something else, it is used to suggest the meaning of a concept, without however delineating it precisely, or by interrupting its definition in order to strengthen its meaning.