L'architettura della decrescita versus la renderizzazione dell'abitare

«The absence of a real criticism of the society of growth in most of the environmentalist talks, which tergiversate with great circumlocutions about sustainable development, is significant. [...] This system, based on excess, leads to a dead end»1. And it is the «excess», the «hybris» - a term repeatedly used by Serge Latouche in his Short Treatise on Serene Degrowth (Latouche S., Breve trattato sulla decrescita serena, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008) – that has marked, despite the wide and somewhat fascinating interplay of linguistic experimentation, the architecture of these years, the years of the «dictatorship of financial markets», becoming the media weapon for a «triumphant and arrogant (even in crisis) globalization». This architecture materializes itself in beautiful hyper technologic body works and amazing epidermis, this architecture, which narcissistically loves its own image and becomes increasingly self-referential, prefers to impress with "habitable objects" that exacerbate the progressive fragmentation, typical of modernity, of urban and natural landscapes, rather than competing in the ancient skill of patient dialogue with the "scenes”. Architecture becomes design, interior spaces molds of empty shells, and living a simulation, an exercise in 3D. If degrowth is the project of a new society, a «concrete utopia», then we might imagine an architecture (the degrowth architecture) which, freed from its submission to the «tecnoeconomy», appeases its obsessive frenzy to appear at any price and starts working to become "network" by tying up again the relationship between man, city and nature, by re-evaluating the architectural interior - the "invisible architecture" of the globalization era - as a space for people, a space of inner experiences and inner listening, a space for feelings, a space for life, a space for relations, a friendly space to propagate outwards and shape architecture in its unity and wholeness.