Manifold identity permanencies, variations, types and characters within Sardinia's modern and contemporary architecture

In the present cultural outline the fundamentals and the paradigms concerning the architectural design are in condition of crisis; the discussion about architecture is reduced to a talk show, while the real transformations of the urban space are passive recipients of private sector demand. The architectural design aims to create "compelling objects" that manipulates forms and materials and are justified only by the architects will to be protagonist. Most part of contemporary architectures seems to produce forms that wants to be all the fashion; they reflects the ornamental and ephemeral character of the mass society and of the age of globalization loosing the search for the essential. The oppositions against the standardization of places, spaces and structure of anthropic space could be a way of resistance that aims to link the architectural design to some paradigmatic principles on which lies the European architecture identity. In the context of the mediterranean architecture Sardinia is a very interesting field of research; for years Sardinia has been considered only a beautiful place for holiday but recently some big "archistar" like Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron or Men-des Da Rocha has been invited from the local government in order to design and realize some important transformation. The first probably will be museum Betile in Cagliari designed by Zaha Hadid. Those programs has attracted attention on architecture in Sardinia that, in Italy, has been always put at the edge of architectural debate. But all the architectures designed by the star achitects are "compelling objects" and they seems disconnected with history, place and humanity. On the contrary modern and contemporary Architecture in Sardinia is characterized by superimpositions and contaminations among the specificity of the place, its attendant building tradition and the influence of different design experience. The architectonical language and the expressiveness are deeply influenced by a mix of different tendencies because in Sardinia worked a lot of architects that came from different places and from different architecture schools as Rome, Florence, Milan, Genua. Nowadays is clear also the influence of the way of design that belongs to spanish and portoguese architects. The concept of identity is central; in Sardinia; it is something singular and typical, and for architects is also a choice, in the sense that it reflects their intentions. The identity of a place is, in fact, what survives the continuous changes of the spatial and functional arrangements of the territory, and gives an indelible character to the sceneries where the existence of human beings, and that of forms, merge.