THEORY AND HISTORY OF RESTORATION
cod. 1007722

Academic year 2024/25
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Lia FERRARI
Academic discipline
Restauro (ICAR/19)
Field
Teorie e tecniche per il restauro architettonico
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND RESTORATION

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding capabilities:
At the end of the course, the student will have a complete knowledge of the history of restoration and of the different theories which have oriented the restoration works across the centuries.

Proficiency
The student, once acquired these theoretical references, will be able to understand the historical architectural heritage and to define the operational criteria for its conservation and restoration.

Autonomous judgement:
At the end of the course the student will have developped the ability to evaluate critically the conservation conditions of a historical buildings and the restoration interventions to which it had been previously subjected. Moreover, the student will be ready to apply the theories of restoration to the Laboratory Courses of the following years.

Communication skills:
During the course, the student will improve its correctness of speech, with specific reference to the technical terms connected to historical buildings restoration.

Learning ability:
The course supplies the student with the basis and the critical references for the comprehension of the present phylosophies of intervention: from these basis the student will be able to develop his/her own sensitiveness towards new theoretical positions.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

- Terminology.
- History of restoration
- The “charters” of restoration
- The cultural debate in the second half of the XXth century
- The Heritage Conservation Acts
- The National Agencies for conservation
- The restoration design
- Examples

Full programme

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Bibliography

The main reference book is: Carbonara G., Avvicinamento al restauro, Teoria, storia, monumenti, Liguori Editore, Napoli, 1997

Other suggested books:
- Che cos’è il restauro?, a cura di B. Paolo Torsello, Marsilio, Venezia, 2005
- Dezzi Bardeschi M., Restauro. Punto e da capo, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1992
- ANAΓKH cultura, storia e tecnica della conservazione, in particolare il n. 4, dicembre, 1993.
- Regione Umbria "Manuale per la riabilitazione e la ricostruzione degli edifici", a cura di F. Gurrieri, DEI, Roma, 1999
- Giuffrè A., Letture sulla meccanica delle murature storiche, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1988
- Lombardini N., Cavalleri F., Achille C., Conoscere per conservare il costruito. Storia, rilievo e rappresentazione, Maggioli, Milano, 2010

Teaching methods

The course is composed of traditional lectures (tought class).

Assessment methods and criteria

Being a module within an integrated course, the exam methods are the ones indicated for the course “History of modern architecture and restoration”

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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