摘要：Since 1975, the French magazine Espaces et Societé, directed by Henri Lefebvre and Anatole Kopp since 1970, has been distributed in Italy in an autonomous version consisting partly of translations of selected articles from the French edition, and partly with contributions of authors from Italy and abroad solicited by the Italian editorial staff. After the first two years of transition, starting in 1978 Giancarlo De Carlo directed the magazine towards a forum for debate and content that this text1 intends to examine in its first five years of publication through the presentation of some of the most significant articles. This way the critical positions of the magazine with respect to the topics of the day can be framed, also highlighting its originality with respect to some dominant lines that coincided with the thinking of its director, whose advertising and publishing activities are almost indistinguishable from his architectural and urban planning activities. Some of these include: attention to the dynamics of process formation rather than the formal outcome, the construction of a collective space for society rather than the affirmation of an ideological principle, cosmopolitan internationalism opposed to the internationalisation of language, first modernist, then postmodernist. And again, precisely from a review of the Modern Movement based on a critique of Post-Modernism, other important considerations arise regarding crucial issues of the transition between the 1970s and the 1980s, such as the intellectual role of the architect and his/her relationship with power vis-à-vis mass society.
