Designing the Mediterranean: a thirty-year research on its sites (1986/2015). Il Disegno del Mediterraneo: il racconto dei luoghi in trent’anni di ricerche (1986/2015)

The Mediterranean Sea is a geographic extension made of cultures and heritages that spread from a common matrix. This paper deals with architecture in a wide sense: not as a building, but as construction of the territory, as result of some processes that create fabulous landscapes. Testifying thirty years of work about Mediterranean Sea finds essence in at least in threes reasons: the first one is given by the deep historic substances and very rich of ours heritages; the second consists of the great variety and multitasking of these heritages; the third concerns of the great radical transformations, both urban and economical that in these thirty years have wake up again a solid necessity to acquire the integrity of the value and of the function of these heritages. There are two important procedures to describe and represent these kind of places: the scientific one, connected to codified methods of representations, and the poetical one, linked to the myth and the dream. Both are present in these thirty years of drawing between Palermo and Reggio Calabria.