COURSE

YEAR

SEM

CFU

Fundamental principles of restoration (students A-L)

          

Prof. Valentina Russo

     3° 

      I 

       6
 
Goals:
The course aims at providing students with the knowledge concerning the reading and understanding the most common problems in built heritage in order to develop, in the following years, the design process of architectural restoration. Being all the topics related to each other, the articulation of the lessons is structured so as to refer to theoretical, methodological, historical, critical, technical and constructive aspects.
Articulation:
I. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CONSERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE
The term "restoration" in all its different forms. The meaning of "monument" as a "document".
The 'cultural goods' and their protection. Architectural restoration, urban restoration and landscape restoration.
Methodological issues and restoration activity: compatibility, reversibility, distinguishing and minimal intervention.
Architectural restoration and new design: recent experiences in Italy and Europe.
II. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESTORATION
History of architecture and restoration.
Interventions on existing architecture before 19th century: "restoration" between Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Interventions on existing architecture before 19th century: restoration issues between Renaissance and Baroque Age.
The birth of "restoration" modern sense. Issues of archeological restoration between 18th and 19th centuries in the Vesuvian area and in Rome.
The birth of the "stylistic restoration". The contribution of the French intellectuals. Eugéne Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc: writings and restoration yards.
The English restoration culture. John Ruskin, William Morris and the Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).
Restoration and architectural debate in Italy in the mid 19th century. Camillo Boito and the dialectic between conservation and restoration.
Gustavo Giovannoni: thoughts and principles of architectural restoration. The "Athens Charter" of 1931 and the "Carta italiana del restauro" of 1932.
Restoration works in Naples between the two World Wars: the contribution of Gino Chierici.
Destructions and reconstructions in Italy and Europe after the World War II: the debate between conservation and innovation. The "critical restoration" in the contribution by Roberto Pane. The "Venice Charter" of 1964.
Restoration and "value judgment" : the considerations of Cesare Brandi.
The development of guidelines in the field of protection in the last decades: the European Charter of the Architectural Heritage (1975). The Amsterdam Declaration (1975). The Granada Convention (1985). The European Landscape Convention (2000). "The Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code" (D.L. 42/2004).
III. HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE AND APPROACH TO THE STRENGHTENING DESIGN.
                                                       
Constructive methods and damage phenomenology.
Overview on  the diagnostic and monitoring project . The diagnosis of masonry instability.
The role of structural strengthening in the restoration project.
The soil and the foundation structures in built heritage: foundational settlements, materials and construction types of foundations.
The vertical masonries: materials and constructive types with particular reference to the Campania context. Mortars in old buildings.
Masonry arches and vaults: materials, constructive types and instability issues.
Wooden ceilings and roofs. Main problems of deterioration and instability. Notes on methods of conservation.
Bibliography
I. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CONSERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE
J. Jokilehto, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford 1999, pp. 295-318 ("Area Architettura" Library)
G. Carbonara, An Italian contribution to architectural restoration, in «Frontiers of Architectural Research», 2012
(in: https://www.docenti.unina.it/supportoAlleLezioni/VisualizzaContenutoCartellePub.do?codInse=15171&percorso=/FONDAMENTI_DI_RESTAURO_15171&idDocente=56414c454e54494e41525553534f525353564e5437304835374638333955&cognomeDocente=RUSSO&nomeDocente=VALENTINA)
II. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESTORATION
J. Jokilehto, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford 1999, pp. 1-40; 42 -50; 56-88; 101; 127-132; 137-157; 174-181; 184-191; 200-206; 215-237; 283-292
("Area Architettura" Library)
V. Russo, Architecture and Memory of Ancient Times: Renewal, Re-Use, Restoration in Seventeenth Century Neapolitan Churches, in A. Roca de Amicis and C. Varagnoli (eds.), Alla moderna. Old Churches and Baroque Renovations: a European Perspective, Artemide, Roma 2015, pp. 69-93 ("Roberto Pane" Library)
C. Brandi, Theory of Restoration (trad. Cynthia Rockwell; rev. Dorothy Bell; cur. Giuseppe Basile), Nardini, Firenze 2005.
J. Ziesemer, M. Petzet, International charters for conservation and restoration, ICOMOS 2004, pp. 7-9; 13-15 ("Roberto Pane" Library)
• see also: M. Glendinning, The conservation movement. A history of architectural preservation: antiquity to modernity, Routledge, London-New York 2013 (https://books.google.it)
III. HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE AND APPROACH TO THE STRENGHTENING DESIGN
D. Fiorani, Seismic issues in historical constructions and sites: the conservation aspects, in International Workshop on Seismic Risk. Preparedness and Mitigation of Archeological and Historical Sites, Jerusalem 2014, pp. 1-4 (www.academia.edu)
E. Coisson and F. Ottoni, Structural monitoring of historical construction: increasing knowledge to minimize interventions, in L. Toniolo, M. Boriani, G. Guidi (eds.), Built Heritage: Monitoring Conservation Management, Springer, London 2015, pp. 83-92.
J. Leafblad, The weathering process. Understanding the science when developing a conservation approach, in G. Tampone (eds.), Conservation of historic wooden structures, Proceeding of the international conference, Firenze 2005, pp. 11-15 ("Roberto Pane" Library)
P. Touliatos, The box framed entity and function of the structure: the importance of wood's role, in G. Tampone (ed.), Conservation of historic wooden structures, Proceeding of the International Conference, Firenze 2005, pp. 52-64 ("Roberto Pane" Library)