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Fundamental principles of restoration (students M-Z)
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3° |
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Goals:
The course aims to provide students with the critical, methodological and technical knowledge concerning the reading and understanding of the most common problems of cultural heritage in view of its protection, restoration and enhancement.
The timesheet of the lessons is structured to provide the students with the tools to understand the lexicon of the restoration, the theoretical-methodological, historical-critical, normative and technical-constructive aspects.
I. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CONSERVATION OF BUILT HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE
The 'cultural goods' and their protection. Architectural, urban and landscape restoration.
The term "restoration" in all its different forms. The meaning of "monument" as a "document".
Actual methodological issues in Restoration
Architectural restoration and new design: recent experiences in Italy and Europe.
The " Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code" (D.L. 42/2004) and the role of the national law in the protection of Built Heritage and landscape.
II. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESTORATION
Interventions on existing architecture before 19th century: Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Interventions on existing architecture before 19th century: Renaissance and Baroque Age.
The birth of "restoration" modern sense. Issues of archeological restoration between 18th and 19th centuries.
The birth of the "stylistic restoration". The contribution of the French intellectuals. Eugéne Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and its influences in Italy.
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 Luca Beltrami.
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 in the first half of XX century: the contribution of Adolfo Avena, Riccardo Filangieri, 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).
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 BUILT HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE
● G. Carbonara, Orientamenti teorici e di metodo nel restauro, in D. Fiorani (a cura di), Restauro e tecnologie in architettura, Carocci, Roma 2009, pp. 15 and following.
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● G. Carbonara, Restauro architettonico: principi e metodo, M.E. Architectural Book and Review, Roma 2012.
II. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESTORATION
● Verso una storia del restauro. Dall’età classica al primo Ottocento, edited by S. Casiello, Alinea editrice, Firenze 2008, pp. 31-60, pp. 61-71, pp. 81-104, pp. 117-137, pp. 139-180, pp. 207-220 e 225-235, pp. 267-310.
● La cultura del restauro. Teorie e fondatori, edited by S. Casiello, Marsilio, Venezia 2005, pp. 35-94, pp. 117-182, pp. 269-292, pp. 315-370, Brandi e Pane.
● L. Veronese, Il restauro a Napoli negli anni dell’Alto Commissariato, Fridericiana editrice, Napoli 2012
● C. Brandi, Teoria del restauro, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2000.
III. HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE AND APPROACH TO THE STRENGHTENING DESIGN.
● A. Aveta, Materiali e tecniche tradizionali nel napoletano. Note per il restauro architettonico, Arte Tipografica, Napoli 1987, pp. 3-20,pp. 25-35, pp. 45-59,pp. 63--146, pp. 163-176, pp. 181-196.
● R. Di Stefano, Il consolidamento strutturale nel restauro architettonico, ESI, Napoli 1990, pp. 9-44,pp. 47-89,pp. 97-107.
● Restauro e tecnologie in architettura, edited by D. Fiorani, Carocci, Roma 2009.
● R. Picone (editor), Pompei Accessibile. Per una fruizione ampliata del sito archeologico/Accessible Pompeii. For an extended fruition of the archaeological site, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Roma 2013
● Restoration charts may be found in: D. Esposito, Carte, documenti e leggi, in G. Carbonara (editor), Trattato di restauro architettonico,Utet, Torino 1996 or in web sites.
The Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code is on www.beniculturali.it.
For follow up:
● R. Picone, V. Russo (editors), L'arte del costruire in Campania tra restauro e sicurezza strutturale/Construction art in Campania between restoration and structural safety, CLEAN, Napoli 2017
● R. Picone, Archeologia e contesto: il ruolo del restauro, in Materiali e Strutture, vol. n. 13, june, 2018, pp. 63-114
Other papers will be suggested during the lessons.