MARKET

Trade and the city are inextricably linked by the most remote stages of our very existence. The market is the architectural typology, or model, or archetype, that secretes the dogmas and dynamics of these two ancestral elements and sanctions their union. It has always marked the daily life in the city, and is defined as the most archaic form of relationship between architecture and commerce. A place of exchange, knowledge, discovery, and not a non-lieu. The market represents a space of experiential exchange, as well as merely commercial, elevating itself to a sensitive space, like a place full of meaning and strongly identified. The interest in this phenomenon is dictated by its very morality and form of expression, making it a guarantor of human relations, promoting direct and genuine relationships, in an era now increasingly digitalized and mediated, such as the shopping mall. Moreover, the market becomes a catalyst of urban elements: a node that is composed of public space, commerce, relationships, memory. Key words for a conscious society and an intellectual architecture that survives in a rapidly mutating society.