L'orto di Francesco. Politiche dell'abitare nella "Laudato sì"

[Autom. eng. transl.] The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the political relevance of the garden, in the typically Franciscan conception. The twofold characteristic of the Franciscan garden (absence of boundaries and presence of non-edible but aesthetically significant plants) politically correlates to a dimension of openness to the other, as a condition of harmonious living, and to an aesthetic dimension of fruition of the like, like principle of gratitude towards creation and a warning against the indiscriminate exploitation of the earth. The article then attempts to update these two principles in a contemporary key, examining the thought and practice of some architects who have made the history of living in modernity; Le Corbusier, on the one hand, Lloyd Wright and Hundertwasser on the other.