Gianluca Peluffo and Valerio Paolo Mosco's 'Spazio, Corpi, Figure' Explores Body, Space, and Figure in Architecture

Gianluca Peluffo and Valerio Paolo Mosco have published 'Spazio, Corpi, Figure' (Forma Edizioni, 2024, €25.00), a book that reinterprets Vitruvius's triad of utilitas, firmitas, and venustas through a metaphorical triangle of body, space, and figure. The authors argue that architectural body is permeable, unlike artistic body, and that space exists only through limits. They critique contemporary architecture's drift toward the limitless, virtual, and image-driven, contrasting 'figure' (tactile, derived from body, implying spatiality) with 'image' (generic, reproducible, populist). The book draws on thinkers like Gaston Bachelard, Bruno Zevi, Simone Weil, and Cristina Campo, and references artists such as Francis Bacon, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner. Peluffo & Partners is the studio behind the publication.