Renato De Fusco was able to analyse the complexity of artistic
expression and to be a forerunner of its future changes. His
teaching encouraged reflection and the evolution of knowledge,
rather than limiting it to rigid concepts. Through «Op. cit.», the
history of the idea of history is shaped as a twofold quest: that of
the common way of identifying a past in a context that is also
analysed in all its aspects, and that of the architectural relationship between grammar and syntax. In 20th-century the histories
of architecture were many and varied. It is within this plurality
that De Fusco offers a broad and eloquent view of this century, in
which architecture constantly interacted with different languages, with which it exchanged its values and acted within the wider
culture of communities. This is a treatise-like exposition that offers a comprehensive and in-depth view of different perspectives
in the field of architecture and other artistic languages, in which
the different moments of building find unexplored connections
