This contribution arises from some reflections and studies about the idea of 'Utopian City'. All those meditations subsequently flowed in an overall intellectual and imaginative abstract depiction whence a series of architectural drawings representing 'Ideals Cities' came to light between 2014 and 2017 by the Author. Architect's will to imagine alternative, utopian cities grows almost naturally with the awareness on the difficulties 'real' cities undeniably have always had in addressing the complexity of human needs. Arising in contrast with the commonly shared idea of what people genuinely perceive as 'ordinary' in structures and buildings because of the familiarity they acquired with that 'concrete surrounding' usually defined as 'architectonic reality', the 'utopian eye' is a limited though extremely important instrument Architects may use to open a window on a fanciful reproduction of the natural space thus re-imagined through a number of mental creative operations aiming to give birth to a very personal Ideal World. This innate aspiration can operate on different levels to satisfy several needs: from a mere research on the built-form of a City it can finally head to 'monumentalize' it, even landing to an investigation about both social and anthropological norms lying at the very basis of both formal and compositive development of the City. The mental process that leads the ` Utopian Architect' in re-shaping the urban body, re-defining the conception of public and private spaces, re-organizing the hierarchy of roads, squares and buildings, is what the Author wants to investigate in this research as well as within his drawings.
