ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION 1

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI642

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Divisions:

Gruppo B

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Restoration

Is part of:

ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION 1

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

VERAZZO CLARA

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of the history of architecture and general themes of history and Italian culture.

Objectives

The course provides an introduction to conservation and restoration, basic topics in the training of the architect, according to the Italian tradition. The course points to the formation of a sensitivity able to listen to past cultures and to respect the signs and testimonies, in the context of contemporary design.

Contents

The course offers a summary of the main issues related to the conservation and management of the built heritage, as an introduction to the design in the field of architectural conservation. The program begins with a review of case studies from Middle Ages and the modern era; therefore focuses on the issue of restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through the illustration of works and theoretical positions; culminates in the presentation of the contemporary debate, through discussion of projects and restored buildings.

Extended Syllabus

1. The evolution of the concept of monument: relationships with the aesthetics and historiography.
Terminology issues: restoration, preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and maintenance.
2. Meaning and role of the monument in the pre-modern tradition.
The Middle Ages: continuity, detachment, ancient knowledge. Revival and restoration of antiquity in
Sixteenth century the attitude towards the Middle Ages. The attention to the Christian antiquities in the sixteenth century. Developments in the Baroque.
3. The birth of modern restoration: the Eighteenth century. The restoration in painting and sculpture patina. The figure of the restorer and the role of scholars: L. Crespi, B. Cavaceppi and J.J. Winckelmann;
P. Edwards in Venice. Conservation and design in architectural restoration; the question of the stability of the buildings.
4. Restoration, archeology, Neoclassicism: the experiences on ancient monuments in Rome and in Italy in Nineteenth century. Legislation and the organization of protection in the pre-unification Italian states.
5. Protection and conservation in France. The Museum of A. Lenoir. The positions of A.-Ch. Quatremère de Quincy.The phase "empirical" restoration. The activities of the Commission des Monuments Historiques and training the principles of stylistic restoration.
6. E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc. The theoretical production: the Dictionnaire. The main restoration: the Madeleine in Vezelay, Notre-Dame in Paris, the palace synod of Sens; Carcassonne, the castle of Pierrefonds.
7. Addresses aesthetic and literary England in the eighteenth century: the garden and the ruins.
The impact on the restoration: J. Wyatt. AW Pugin and the thought of John Ruskin and its European coverage.
Restoration and revival in the nineteenth century English: G.G. Scott. W. Morris and the work of the Society for Protection ofAncient Buildings.
8. Restoration and architectural debate in the mid-nineteenth century Italy: Lombardy and the Kingdom of Naples. Controversy and restoration in Venice. Camillo Boito: theoretical principles, achievements and the influence on the national debate.
9. Conservation and restoration in Italy in the late nineteenth century. The relationship between history-restoration in L. Beltrami. Knowledge and reinvention of the past: A. D'Andrade and A. Rubbiani.
10. The conservation of historical city: C. Sitte, Ch Buls. Developments in German: the contribution of A. Riegl. G. Giovannoni: old town and new buildings. The historical method, the theoretical positions on the restoration.
11. The Athens Charter, the comparison between the international experience and the Italian contribution.
The legislative framework and achievements in Italy between the two world wars.
12. The Second World War and the problem of reconstruction. The restoration as a critical act: Pica, Bread, Bonelli. The Venice Charter.
13. The thought of Cesare Brandi assumptions, conceptual articulations, results of application. The activities of the Istituto Centrale del Restauro.
14. The current debate: the "pure conservation" and the focus on material culture.
15. Theory and practice of restoration today: the issue of authenticity, contemporary architecture
and assistance on the works of the past, the restoration of the architecture of the twentieth century.
16. Protection and restoration in Abruzzo, works and debates from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

Recommended Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY
General manuals:
CESCHI C., Teoria e storia del restauro, Roma, Bulzoni, 1970
SETTE M.P., Profilo storico, in G. CARBONARA (a cura di), Trattato di restauro architettonico, Torino 1996, vol. I, pp. 109-299.

Bibliographic sources:
RUSKIN, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, London 1849, trad. it., Le sette lampade dell’architettura, Milano, Jaca Book, 1982, in particolare, “La lampada della memoria”, pp. 209-230.
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, L’architettura ragionata, estratti dal Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XI e au XVI e siècle, a cura di M.A. CRIPPA, Milano, Jaca Book, 1982, voce “Restauro”, pp. 247-271.
BOITO, I restauri in architettura. Dialogo primo, in Questioni pratiche di Belle Arti, Milano 1893, ora in Il nuovo e l’antico in architettura, antologia a cura di M.A. CRIPPA, Milano, Jaca Book,1989, in particolare pp. 107-126.
RIEGL, Der moderne Denkmalkultus. Sein Wesen und seine Entstehung, Wien-Leipzig 1903, traduzione italiana Il culto moderno die monumenti. Il suo carattere e i suoi inizi, a cura di S. SCARROCCHIA, Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985.
GIOVANNONI, Restauro dei monumenti, alla voce Restauro in Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondato da G. Treccani, 1936, vol. XXIX, pp. 127-130.
PANE, Il restauro dei monumenti e la chiesa di S. Chiara a Napoli, in “Aretusa”, 1944, 1, ora in R. PANE, Attualità e dialettica del restauro, antologia a cura di M. CIVITA, Chieti, Solfanelli, 1987, pp. 23-37.
BONELLI, Il restauro architettonico, alla voce Restauro, in Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte, vol. XI, col. 322 e ss., ma coll. 344-351, Venezia-Roma 1963.
BRANDI, Teoria del restauro, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1963 (II ed. Torino, Einaudi, 1977), in part. pp. 3-61, 77-80, 133-154.

Essays on the history of restoration:
E. PANOFSKI, La prima pagina del “Libro” di Giorgio Vasari (1930), in E. PANOFSKI, Il significato nelle arti visive, (I edizione 1955), Torino, Einaudi, 1962, pp. 169-215, in part. pp. 169177, 185-205, 214-215.
C. VARAGNOLI, S. Croce in Gerusalemme: la basilica restaurata e l’architettura del Settecento romano, Roma, Bonsignori, 1995, in part. cap. 4 e Appendice.
C. VARAGNOLI, Teoria ed empiria dal Settecento all’Ottocento, in Trattato sul consolidamento, (direttore scientifico P. Rocchi), Roma, Mancosu editore, 2003, pp. A 100-107.
S. CASIELLO, Problemi di conservazione e restauro nei primi decenni dell’Ottocento a Roma, in S. CASIELLO (a cura di), Restauro tra metamorfosi e teorie, Napoli, Electa Napoli, 1992, pp. 7-53; in part. pp. 26-44 AA.VV., Viollet-le-Duc e il restauro degli edifici in Francia, catalogo della mostra (Torino luglio-ottobre 1981), Milano, Electa, 1981, schede su: Madeleine a Vézelay, NotreDame a Parigi, Carcassonne.
C. VARAGNOLI, Dal restauro al piano: teorie e interventi nel quartiere del Rinascimento, in G. Spagnesi (a cura di), Il corso e il quartiere del Rinascimento, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1994, pp. 49-93.
S. CASIELLO (a cura di), La cultura del restauro. Teorie e fondatori, Venezia, Marsilio, 1996 (saggi su Viollet-le-Duc, Boito, Beltrami).

The topics of the 1970-2015 debate:
G. CARBONARA, La reintegrazione dell’immagine. Problemi di restauro dei monumenti, Roma, Bulzoni, 1976.
P. MARCONI, Arte e cultura nella manutenzione dei monumenti, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1984.
M. DEZZI BARDESCHI, Il restauro: punto e daccapo. Frammenti per una (impossibile) teoria, a cura di V. LOCATELLI, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1991.
M. TAFURI, Storia, conservazione, restauro, in “Casabella”, anno LV, n. 580, giugno 1991, pp. 23-26.
G. CARBONARA, Teoria e metodi del restauro, in G. CARBONARA (a cura di), Trattato di restauro architettonico, Torino 1996, vol. I.
C. VARAGNOLI, Edifici da edifici: la ricezione del passato nell’architettura italiana 1990-2000, in “L’industria delle costruzioni”, 368, novembre/dicembre 2002, pp. 4 –15.
C. VARAGNOLI (a cura di), Conservare il passato. Metodi ed esperienze di protezione e restauro in aree archeologiche, atti del convegno (Chieti-Pescara 2003), Roma, Gangemi, 2005.
C. VARAGNOLI, Continuare il passato. Quattro pezzi facili su De Carlo, in F. BILÒ (a cura di), A partire da Giancarlo de Carlo, atti del convegno (Facoltà di Architettura dell’Università di Chieti e Pescara, 2-3 marzo 2006), Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2007, pp. 53-60.
A.G. PEZZI, Tutela e restauro in Abruzzo dall’Unità alla seconda guerra mondiale, Roma, Gangemi, 2005.
L. SERAFINI, Danni di guerra e danni di pace. Ricostruzione e città storiche in Abruzzo nel secondo dopoguerra, Villamagna, Edizioni Tinari, 2008.

Teaching Methods

The course is conducted through oral presentations that illustrate specific historic restorations, trying to reconstruct the situation and the cultural context that govern every action.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final examination is carried out through an oral examination on the topics presented during the course. There are exercises and multiple choice quizzes during the course to evaluate learning and the impact of the proposed topics.

Contacts/More Information

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Reception: Thursday, Department of Architecture, viale Pindaro 42, Pescara, time 15:30 to 17:30

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