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The aim of this paper is to explore existing links between language, architecture and urbanization in the literary works of two Italian-Istrian writers, Nelida Milani and Alessandro Damiani. Since 1946 Istria belonged to former Yugoslavia. During the fifties and the seventies many Italians left Istria, with a massive exodus. The ones who remained in the peninsula lived in a new language and architectonic universe; Croatian autorithy in many cases destroyed palaces and places that Italian people built in the past. Nelida Milani, who is writer and Professor of socio-psycholinguistic at the University of Pula, describes the shock of Italian minority who felt deprived of its identity, as they had lost the ability to speak and to recognise their towns: architectonc contest is empty too, suburbs are anonymous and without personality. Alessandro Damiani went to Istria after the World War II, with the specific intent of participating at the realisation of the Communist society. In his allegorical novel "And they got the moon", he talks about a total and dramatic change: after a catastrophe just two men survived. These men experienced all the phases of human development, thanks to the language, the human capacity to give an order to the chaos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]