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E 'was published the important book dedicated to the restoration of the Casa del fascio in Caserta, in the central Market Square (old), with the title: Raffaele Cutillo - Luigi Spina, former House of Beam Caserta, a chronicle of a construction site in progress , Electa, 2008. And indeed, this is the documentation of the phases of the restoration step by step, with a series of beautiful pictures, both black and white or color. These photographs document the state of the building before restoration, after restoration - the restoration was being completed on April 28 this year - as also the central area in which that building stands.

The work is very interesting, because it does make some significant considerations current architecture, or, rather, on ' anti-architecture of the present age. In fact, this building stands out as a building that has a style in a market place of our own, characterized by the absence of a style, as the sheer quantity of housing construction and filling of space, without "mark it" in any way. The final epoch of modernity, thus, has succeeded in what no civilization had ever done: build something completely meaningless, worthless, not "marks" the landscape, but it is only the projection of an economic relationship between quantitative a holder of capital, that capital invested, and a or more buyers, and buyers that these are public or private does not change the anti-sense of the "architecture". The House of beam, however, has a style that can like it or not. And the style is always the externalization of an ideology, an ideology "silent" so much more meaningful to express an ideology, and so much more pervasive.

Each civilization, building, tells us who and what it is. The current anti-civilization tells the world that only has the exchange relationship, the meaning, the meaning they have no place called "civilization." We live in a vacuum, where we have many micro-separate atoms. In the absence of sense here is that each claim in a loud voice the sense, that is smeared on the walls or on the web is, "shoot" at times great just to get attention. This means that the world, after all, is alive, and needs a sense of direction, a direction, a "something" eventually, but it is looking around, then he dreams. Dreams the lost meaning. The sense, unique, that nihilism, which is not the absence of meaning but the variety of ways but none of them being "The" way, you need to survive Despite everything, but that can not be satisfied because ordinary people lack the necessary culture to do this and intellectual classes both in the Church do not know re-write what has been lost. This reminds me of Adorno said: "The envy of the gods survives the gods." But back to the architectural issues. Looking at the House the beam immediately reminded of the Eur in Rome: in fact, that's the style, the latest style of the first "living machines" to after the war, the 'anti -style mega-structures - the "syndrome of the airport" I call it - without evidence and without meaning, that can do anywhere, uniform number, uniformizzanti, from Chicago to Papua (Papua New Guinea), from Singapore to New York from London to Borneo, Brazil, South Africa and in the polar areas. The only difference is what you want to invest money. It does not matter anything else, really.

not me talking but important architects, Eur was the last time in Italy, where we have seen an architecture, a style. This has nothing to do with the glorification of fascism , because the "Thirties style" of the last century was conceived as reaffirmation of the state against the forces, then already prevalent, the market forces that have won - and finally - the last of the last century, only to be utterly incapable of manage their own success, and we are where we are. In Germany, there was the same style, although, as always, love the German megalomania. In Russia it has the same style, affected by Stalinism. In short, and is an important point, that style "Thirties independent from the different ideologies, but focuses on the reaffirmation of the state, what it is, then, the ideology of reference for its reaffirmation, ideology proletarian nationalism. This leads, therefore, such vast urban plans, squares, wide roads, the exact opposite of today !, Neoclassical style buildings, but reworked with the modern neo-classicism. Among other things, there is even a tendency to a return to symbolism, as hidden, for example, has been shown that there are symbolic in the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow. Look the House of the beam and then all the other modern buildings of the Market Square: It is the only building that means something, the rest are "living machines", to meet the need, instinctive and animal, human to have a home, a refuge, a "den."

And that sense this effect to happen, I repeat, has nothing to do with the glorification of past ideologies but instead us to understand what kind of architecture we abyss plunged, particularly in Italy, particularly in the South and Caserta is an example of that darkness Preclaro sum, unrepentant, filthy, boring and tasteless, in a world where the most vulgar mediocrity reigns supreme as a poisonous spider, all infected with his mental sewage.

Andrea A. Ianniello