The Memory of Order

To question the meaning of architecture means to try to establish a principle of global and timeless legitimation, not referring only in the past or present. Modern architecture, despite the fact that it present in a fragmentary condition, aspires, for this same reason, to a all lost. In this text, developed from the point of view of an architect and not that of a critic or historian, the aim is to verify how the stories Modern architectural works, although fragmentary, always refer to an Order which continues to serve as a reference. He thus attempts to explain why architecture continues to have its own identity throughout time and why it continues to be so necessary.