Inhabiting the Fragilities of Modern Heritage

The theme of the single-family house define today an investigation framework that links terms and tools of 'heritagisation', conservation and use of a particular segment of 20th-century architecture. The status of “auteur architecture” accorded to the houses of Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, Luigi Moretti, Carlo Scarpa and Vittoriano Viganò discussed in this volume is not proving to be a sufficient criterion for guaranteeing an effective protection at national and international level. The factors that make famous buildings, recognized for their cultural value, “heritage at risk” not only relate to issues connected to the legislative context, but also concern methods of social reception and use of these works, in which the inhabitant/user plays a central role in the proper management and transmission of this heritage to the future.