Abstract

The paper analyzes a part of modern roman architectural production, which produced, in the forty years at the turn of the Second World War, works and parts of city of recognizable and recognized environmental quality, conceiving architectural objects, thanks to a widespread and shared urban culture, in close relation to their reference contexts. An overview that describes some pieces of this modern city is followed by a detailed analysis of some works by Ugo Luccichenti, one of the leading protagonists of roman architectural scene between the mid-thirties and the end of the sixties. An instrumental analysis to re-trigger a culture of design (now apparently disappeared in Rome) capable of thinking organically urban space and the architectural space as a single and inseparable unit