Discussions with Renato De Fusco determined my study and research directions, an attempt to define a path in which design
concepts, methods and theory became a useful construct. De
Fusco’s research has always been marked by cultivating dialogue and dialectical reflection on theories, searching for the
clearest terms and reasoning to the understanding of architectures, objects, products, theories in design and the practices
proper to production, those that constitute the foundations of the
world of design and the diffusion of functional artifacts.
His conception of design can be reduced to considering it a language, that is, an organized system of information and media; he
attempted to provide a semiological theory in order to be able to
analyze and interpret architecture and urbanism, it was a main
field of endeavor and still provides useful insights to order these
phenomena, in the field of design he developed a general theory
that started from characters in order to define the sphere of design versus what is outside of it, the so-called cloverleaf theory
