L’architettura nell’opera di Francesco Pecoraro

Abstract

After decades of architectural study and practice, Francesco Pecoraro made his literary debut at the age of sixty with the collection Dove credi di andare (2007). At the time, he was working as urban planner for the Municipality of Rome, where he had previously held the position of architect. Drawing on both his education and professional experience, this article explores the kinship between architecture and writing in Pecoraro’s work. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetic criteria and formal devices underlying the composition of his texts, to the points of contact between urban fabric and written text, and to the ways in which physical and literary spaces are conceived. Finally, the article seeks to highlight the author's intimate spatial vision and to outline a specific compositional logic – an ars aedificandi – through which Pecoraro’s forms and meanings may be more deeply understood.