Gli occhiali di Froissart. Il Campus Luigi Einaudi di Foster + Partners

In the lasts twenty years the major university institutions in Turin have played a main role in the re-use processes of former industrial sites within the city. This article proposes to read the Luigi Einaudi Campus in Turin as a document through which to interpret the ongoing debate on the relationship among the University and the City. To do so the article investigate the spatial paradigms of the urban campus and the design process that shaped it. The continuity that results from this investigation suggests to widen the field of the architectural critic, taking into account perspectives coming from the Social Sciences. Conclusions open critical issues which can be addressed beyond the considered case-study.