Architecture from Rubble. To ‘Rebuild the Imaginary’

The contemporary imagination seems to be separating from the physical world, it stops producing concrete forms and symbols, as its direct secretions. Architects are already designing "buildings" for the metaverse, architectures that do not have physicality as their final goal. On the other hand, our time is characterized by a sense of estrangement in urban and landscape scenarios produced by building remains, fragments of a recent past. The cities, the landscapes, are increasingly densely dotted with unfinished or abandoned artifacts, buildings, warehouses, huge infrastructures…, destined or that will be destined for destruction. Rubble, present now or in the near future, can become material to be molded. Signs of decay can reveal potential for a new, yet unexpressed meaning. However, using rubble as a building material is not just a technical matter, it regenerates the act of building, while "rebuilding the imaginary".