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CRITICAL ESSAYS
Over the years, Fausto Ferrara's work has been observed and interpreted by architects, architectural historians, critics, and scholars from different fields and generations.
The texts collected in this section are not intended to explain the works or define a univocal meaning, but to traverse them, providing autonomous readings based on the experience of space, matter, time, and silence.
These contributions accompany the work without circumscribing it, composing a constellation of perspectives that testify to the continuity of a research conducted on the margins of fashions and disciplinary noise, in constant dialogue with critical thinking.
Elizabeth Cristallini
A critical essay on the Spazio Sensoriale project, in which Fausto Ferrara's architecture is interpreted as a perceptive and cognitive device, capable of initiating silence, contemplation, and a sense of place. Cristallini places Ferrara's work within a tradition that combines modern rigor, phenomenological dimension, and scenographic sensibility, interpreting architecture as a "thinking machine" and an act of responsibility toward humanity and environmental balance.
Catalogue of the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Enrico Crispolti
2013
A critical essay interpreting Fausto Ferrara's work as an exploration of space as a perceptual and ethical experience, in which architecture, light, and time construct places of suspension and listening. Crispolti emphasizes the coherence of his research and its distance from dominant trends, interpreting Ferrara's work as a form of silent resistance to contemporary noise.
PRIMARY TEXTS
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