The end of prohibitionism / Paolo Portoghesi -- How things got to be the way they are now / Vincent Scully -- Towards an authentic architecture / Chritian Norberg-Schulz -- Towards radical eclecticism / Charles Jencks -- The "Strada Novissima" -- Homage to Gardella, Johnson, Ridolfi -- The fascination of the present / Paolo Farina -- Philip Johnson: images / Emilio Battisti -- The craft of Mario Ridolfi / Francesco Cellini, Claudio D'Amato -- Participants -- The corderia of the Arsenale -- The Tana reopened: machines and workshops of the Arsenal of Venice / Manlio Brusatin