45211 - Conservation of Materials in Historical Buildings (A)

Learning outcomes

Course contents

Among the different possibilities we can choose, it's undeniable and clear that

conservation of historical architecture is the only way to permit people who will come after

us to repeat the experiment where we've left it.

Projecting an intervention on existing architecture is an activity of huge responsibility: the

architect has to be conscious of the result that his choice can bring, although this

consciousness has taken long time to become a real part of architects or the engineers.

The aim is to give the competences to face a restoration project on a monument,

individuated for its problem of conservation and its accessibility, making a philological and

historical-critical reading and approaching the analysis of the building.

The course is divided in theoretical and practical classes. The check on the results

reached by the students will be part during the course and part at the final exam.

Readings/Bibliography

J. Jokilheto, A History of Architectural Conservation, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1999

C. Di Biase, Il restauro e i monumenti. Materiali per la storia del restauro, CLUP, Milano, 2003

 A. Bellini (a cura di), Tecniche della conservazione, Angeli, Milano 1986

G. Rocchi, Istituzioni di restauro dei beni architettonici e ambientali, Hoepli, Milano, 1990 (2° edizione)

P. Fancelli, Il restauro dei monumenti, Nardini, Firenze, 1998

G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, vol. I-X, Utet, Torino, 1996-2008

G. Carbonara, Avvicinamento al restauro. Teoria, storia, monumenti, Liguori, Napoli 1997

L. Zevi, Il manuale del restauro architettonico, Mancosu, Roma 2001

 

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