LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course proposes an itinerary around the idea of ​​conservation / restoration which has as its final goal a mature and well-founded critical reflection on the themes of responsibility, respect, the specificity of the architectural heritage of cultural interest and the sustainability of its restoration. Fundamental themes of the culture of conservation and restoration will be addressed, declined in a broad sense, because they cannot be perceived as the prerogative of a small circle of lovers of the subject, but must be declined in such a way as to be closely linked to the reflection that everyone is held to develop towards the society in which he lives and which he will contribute, with his work, study and planning, to modify in various ways, so that these are culturally founded, acceptable and sustainable in a broad sense. The purpose of the course is aimed at a critical study of some issues related to the fundamental question of "why is it preserved / restored" in the contemporary world.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills of the disciplines of conservation and restoration, together with the ability to understand them, re-elaborate them in critical ways and use them a support of future intentions and design choices.

PREREQUISITES

Any basic knowledge of a general historical nature and, in particular, of the history of architecture and art constitutes an essential starting point for understanding the specific contents of the teaching. Basic concepts of philosophy and knowledge of materials, construction techniques and the degradation processes of existing building components and structures, ancient and modern structural concepts, methods of reading and analyzing existing architectures in general are also useful.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes lectures of a frontal nature, also with seminars by external experts, collective discussions between teacher and students and makes use of audiovisual aids regularly made available on Aula Web.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

In summary, the course investigates the following main themes (not exclusively in chronological succession):

• the origins and legitimacy of the Restoration discipline;
• the relationships of the Renaissance period with the architecture of the Middle Ages and classical Antiquity;
• relations with pre-existing factories, between the Baroque period and the eighteenth century;
• the birth and development of the discipline of "modernly understood" restoration in the nineteenth century, through the thought and work of some protagonists (EE Viollet Le Duc, J. Ruskin, W. Morris, C. Boito, L. Beltrami, A. D'Andrade, A. Rubbiani, ...);
• the protagonists of the restoration in the early twentieth century (A. Riegl, G. Giovannoni, R. Pane, R. Bonelli, C. Brandi, G. De Angelis D’Ossat ...), subsequent developments and the more recent debate;
• the relationships between Restoration, History and historiography (the many possible "Stories", general and specific, of ideas and material culture, the concepts of time and duration, of ancient, modern and contemporary);
• relations with the arts and expressive disciplines;
• relations with "Philosophy" and Aesthetics, the role of the subject, the relationship with "reality" and "beauty";
• relations with natural, physical, mathematical and construction sciences;
• relations with "Technique" and with the art of building;
• the concept of “Heritage” (architectural, historical, cultural, material, immaterial, etc.) and its change over time (from the Monument to the historic center, to the cultural landscape);
• Institutions, national and international, rules, documents and policies of protection, conservation and restoration; • the areas, times and purposes of the action (project, process, planning, management);
• relations with architectural, urban and territorial planning;
• introduction to the techniques of non-destructive analysis and diagnosis of existing buildings;
• contemporary restoration projects and interventions in Italy and in the world.
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From the lessons will emerge words, concepts that the student must demonstrate to know and use correctly, respecting their historically determined nature (authentic, original, original, truth-true, likely, false, identity, completeness, completeness, fragment, decorum, cleanliness, readability , stability, functionality, usability, reusability, reversibility, compatibility, ...). The student must also know the fundamental elements of the biographies of the authors cited, their main written works and the examples of ancient and recent restorations attributable to them and illustrated in the course. The materials used to support the lessons will be included in the web classroom together with some of the texts indicated in the bibliography.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The main bibliographic sources are in Italian and so we make directly reference to the Italian text of the Teaching record.

Substitutive or integrative bibliographic references in other languages and manly in English, will be in any case provided for foreign students.