For sure from north to south Italy, we can have very different architectures responding to the different kind of weathers and of the different configuration of the land.
Nowadays there are multiple studies and researches that would like to find the perfect design that is able to integrate itself with the surrounding ambient, trying to benefit from what the specific context can offer, minimizing any extra use of energy.
 
Each region can learn from its past, since the vernacular and rural architecture of each area it is already a demonstration of how man tried and succeeded to integrate its abode in different territories. Therefore, it is about taking the information from the past and evolve them, thanks to new climate building design principles and technologies, adapting to the new scenarios developing as consequences of the climate change.