Spazialità e struttura di una architettura inquieta Spatialities and structures of a restless architecture

Moretti translated the forms and elements of classical tradition into an abstract language: exemplary of this is the role played by the review Spazio, which he founded in 1950, and that in only three years of life constructed the thematic nuclei of a design research that exceeds its time. From Eclettismo e unità di linguaggio, which inaugurated the first issue, to Strutture e sequenze di spazi which closed the final one in 1953, Moretti revendicated intelligent composition and grafted themes and motifs inferred from abstract art and Baroque sculpture onto the linguistic legacy of the avant-gardes, from Valori della modanatura to Trasfigurazioni di strutture murarie, from Genesi di forme della figura umana to the application of mathematical principles to architecture and urbanism.3