Juan Lopez Cano, URBANITÀ SPONTANEE, 2020

Starting from the observation of architectural practices “of action”, the aim of this publication is to discover the network of contemporary interpreters who have public space as a field of intervention and whose projects address the redefinition of the idea of community. Passing through a retroactive path, it analyzes and catalogs modes of intervention sharing intents, theoretical assumptions and design outcomes with the so-called “action practices”. The selected projects show different spatial typologies: from the market to the square, from cultural to local social activities centers, from the Universal Expo to “inflatable” events. The different spatial situations share a series of aspects: flexibility of use, temporary, construction process, reversibility, adaptability, reuse (both material and functional), site-specificity, spatial indeterminacy. This book is also a tribute to those authors who have imagined the project not as something unaltered in time, but as a changing process in all its vital phases.