Ugo La Pietra’s Recupero e Reinvenzione

Ugo La Pietra is an architect, filmmaker, artist, and designer. This book Recupero e Reinvenzione (Recuperation and Reinvention) 1970-75 was part of his larger  series calls I gradi di Liberta, the degrees of freedom. He explored the urban space around the periphery of Milan, and in this case, observed the informal construction of shacks. 

In it, he writes,

“The places in which we live are constantly imposed on us, in reality the space in which we operate can exist only like a mental model that is continually modified by experience. We must search for the form that is born from our experience instead of from imposed schemes.”