The events around the Triennial experience have revealed a relationship of an elective affinity existingbetween the Italian and the German cultures, both founded on the idea that the project should beunderstood as an analytical tool for knowledge and on the issue that architecture, at the same time,represent the tangible manifestation of the values of a community.It is therefore possible to identify some recurring themes in the project, linked one to each other, suchas the relationship with History, Construction and City. History understood as a line of continuity forthe expression of a language away from the formal and the technological temptations and as acontainer of possible choices. Construction as a tool through which the architecture becomes objectiveexpressing its relationship with the place. City as a concrete context with which weave a new relation