Archeologia dell’Architettura, XXVII.2, 2022 – La città e le case. Normative, funzioni e spazi (XII-XIV secolo) Atti del convegno internazionale di studi (Soriano nel Cimino, 7-10 aprile 2021)

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The volume contains some papers presented at the International Study Conference entitled The city and the houses. Regulations, functions and spaces (XNUMXth-XNUMXth century) curated by Elisabetta De Minicis, Giancarlo Pastura and Giuseppe Romagnoli (DISTU-University of Tuscia) which took place remotely from 7 to 10 April 2021. It is the sixth meeting in the series of conferences dedicated to the relationship between architecture and the city with a particular focus on domestic construction. In medieval cities, particularly in newly founded centers or in expanding villages, with significant relationships with the respective rural areas, the house expresses the ways followed for its material construction in harmony - or in open dissonance - with customs or precise regulations . The results of the "construction methods", often legible in the wall structures, express the attention paid to the adjacent houses, to the public road, to the internal and external private spaces. Each region favors constructive methods and skills, relationships with contexts or pre-existing structures, according to traditions that indicate the consolidation of long-lasting processes but also influences and exchanges with the areas with which Europe interacted in the Middle Ages. With this new meeting of scholars belonging to various Italian and foreign universities, an exchange of ideas was proposed on those phenomena of similarity and diversity of the dynamics that govern the construction of houses, their planning, their ways of use.