Mediterranean architecture
"Today, more than ever, Mediterranean architecture can be a teaching method, overcoming arbitrariness, a search for essentiality, a practice of saving and environmental recovery [...] Its universality can be traced in the way it provides adequate answers to essential needs and in a search for rigor that today stands as an ethical factor of saving against the excesses of consumption, the waste of resources, the indiscriminate exploitation of the territory ... "(Antonello Monaco, La Casa Mediterranea: modelli e deformazioni, Magma Editions, Naples, 1997).