Landscape is a crossroads of different time periods, an immense, ageless ruin. In its various forms, natural landscape is sometimes able to absorb built structures by transforming monuments into natural forms, leaving traces of absence or of memory.

Contemporary architecture no longer seems able to strive for eternity but merely for an infinitely replaceable present.

Thus it is worth asking what our sense of place will be in the future and if this will coincide with the role of architecture. How can we confer architectural heritage that will endure and be part of our lives or become the archaeological remains of our future landscape? What value will our historical monuments assume; and if they still exist, what kinds of monuments will they be? How can we preserve them and restore them to our civilization, which is a perpetual construction site?

The conference will be held in Italian.