Vicenza who lives a few hundred meters from three major Venetian villas who is his favorite architect is almost a joke. If you ask in the 2009 'the year when we celebrate the five hundredth Palladian seems even more provocative.
we sure? not really.
I take the proposal to Salvatore D 'Agostino, in his blog
http://wilfingarchitettura.blogspot.com/ asks all Italian bloggers who write about architecture to answer two simple questions: What is the
'renowned architect, still active, you appreciate and why?
What is the architect did not know that you appreciate and why? As noted
asks "architect still working."
I'm not an architect and not an expert in architecture, but a lover. I do not know many names you can compile a list, and should I limit myself to choose my friends.
Well, I respond with a kind of allegory, or panegyric, which revolves around the concept.
For me the 'living architect, known or unknown, which I appreciate most is the one who can communicate with the present than the past. He moves deftly between sheets of paper chisel and the mason, who feeds on art, music and culture. A person can understand that a great revolution in architecture can also be the rediscovery of the past, not all the past, but what it does take us into the future. I'm not talking necessarily as examples of the great architects of the past, their superstars, but the small and invisible master architects in the history books of the 'architecture there is no trace. I speak of those who were born and lived in a territory they have understood what he wanted this territory and have produced the result that allowed men to stay and things over time.
I speak of wise men, who understand the 'art of mediation and good taste, people who knew when to stop, when to adjust when he beat and know when to build.
Men who have not come to terms with the power but have maintained the 'honor and respect of the territory. Men who cry out before the tradition of addressing change studied the tradition. And the change, which becomes better, he arrived alone.
I do not have names to do, and if they did not know anyone there. But who is recognized in the category described may also citations.
RYAN 
