Arquitectura

A growing distrust for large, distant power center has rekindled a desire for local identity and occasioned a reconciliation of citizens and local institutions. For this reason, especially in such non "classical" times as these, the very image of monumentality has shifted from the traditional, built on solid icons and symbols power, to the idea of an integration into the urban fabric in which the community can more easily recognize itself-its own history, its own memory. In this sense, the new sites of local institutions "serve the city" not only by exercising their bureaucratic functions, but by enhancing urban spatial quality.