[When the least place is care: architecture and vulnerability]

Many essential places in the history of health care, such as the hospital in Gorizia, Italy, remind us of the ambivalence of health care and of the architectures likely to accommodate it, for better or for worse. This ambivalence, in fact, is also specific to the founding concepts of a certain architectural epistemology, which posits the negation of human vulnerability as the foundation stone of the city. In order to get out of this ambivalence, it will be necessary to undertake a global re-evaluation of the pillars of the discipline in the light of the thoughts of care, so as to be able to accompany the more pragmatic work of rehumanizing the spaces of care.