“If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.” Maurizio Oddo’s opus magnum bears an unsurpassed epigraph by Oscar Wilde, which sums up a boundless research of rare depth and strongly autobiographical character. The author could not have chosen a more appropriate expression to evoke the sense of a spiritual adventure that would be reductive to define as disciplinary. His ambition is, in fact, to restore an ontological primacy to the architectural project, understood as a transformative instance of given conditions.
