There is no doubt that ceramics in architecture represent the complete combination of the four natural elements – earth, water, fire, air – considered historically as the origins of them evolutionary chain of construction of matter. Moreover, the refinements of the production process can be observed within the domestic space in countless variations ranging from the rudest terracotta to the most delicate porcelain. Indeed, we can say with absolute assurance that there is no habitable environment where this amazing material is not useful or even essential to the performance of the activities performed there. Because it truly is an amazing material, a matter of alchemy that changes its characteristics and its very nature depending on the ingredients used and the temperature at which it is fired, even to the art of those who have learned to color it and make it into objects of art that are part of our everyday existence. 

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