Walls of the present time. Reformulation of the relationship between the individual and the territory.

This research opens up a new field of study in architecture and urban planning. In fact, it is not an exclusively descriptive reading but, despite having its greatest strength in rigorous reading, it starts from an attitude expressed by the culture of architectural design. An articulated line of research that problematizes the spatial effects of the border's fortification and reconfigures the world's geography in which the fluidity typical of modern society undergoes a substantial upheaval assuming a diametrically opposite character. The starting point was to note that contrary to what might have been expected, the proliferation of walls and physical borders multiplied after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A simple observation that led me to undertake a verification on a global scale, concentrating on the one hand on cataloguing it as numerically significant data in itself, and on the other hand on the study of the aspects linked to the phenomena of new urbanization or modification of the existing one that this proliferation of barriers he brought with him. The work reveals a new geography of borders that concerns not only the national delimitations between states but also the social, ethnic, and religious differences existing within individual cities or territories belonging to a single nation. In the wake of migrations, walls have become a territorially new presence that characterizes the world, from the USA to the Balkans, and alongside them are unprecedented urban phenomena that research has studied in their differences and similarities: from the urban walls of Jerusalem or Nicosia to temporary settlements in the African deserts or in the forests of Eastern Europe. The punctual description of this new geography constitutes the most relevant aspect of a phenomenon that has so far been read-only in its social and journalistic aspects but which the research restores in its harsh material and urban essence.