The never-ending Ulysses myth: the influence of the Mediterranean Sea on architectural thinking

Accepting Alain Roger’s thesis on «artialization», landscape has not any direct link to the natural - geographical dimension of lands, but it is the result of the superimposition of all the artistic expressions from the past. Following the main journeys around the Sea, along centuries and fashions, we can find a kind of continuity in Art and in the architectural thinking. Tracks, paths, attentions, topics, archetypes of spaces creates a Mediterranean heritage that still influences the way some young architects work: the use of the light, the relationship between architecture and site, the climate determining influence in the planning process, the “outdoor” room, the geometric simplification, the minimalist approach, the coincidence of simple forms of life and spatial structures.