THEORY AND HISTORY OF RESTORATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- VERONICA BALBONI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/19
Training objectives
- The course provides the theoretical knowledge needed for a proper critical approach to the comprehension and interpretation of a restoration project.
Knowledge
The main knowledge acquired by the student during the course concern the theoretical and critical guidelines and related project outcomes that have developed and followed in the history of the discipline, in relation with the principles that address the restoration project (minimal intervention, compatibility, distinctness , reversibility). Specifically, the knowledge acquired are related to the history of critical thinking in architectural restoration, traced according to a unitary perspective and chronologically comparing the cultural contexts and lines of thought;
Skills
During the course, students acquire specific skills that allow them to:
- Critically evaluate the restoration work in the light of the principles of the discipline;
- Apply critical thinking to the project on the pre-existence and translate the principles in disciplinary design practice; Prerequisites
- The useful skills concern:
- basic knowledge of modern and contemporary history and major events occurred, especially in artistic fields, between eighteenth and twenty-first century;
- ability to deal with a critical approach all the items;
- ability to locate chronologically events, people, works and to put in connection with the different schools of thought. Course programme
- Lessons (50 hours) will provide students with a general overview on the discipline and specific investigations about history and theories of the restoration.
Didactic Unit: Theories and history of restoration (50 hours)
1) The continuity past-present and interveventions on pre-existence buildings
2) Directions and leads in art criticism and architectural culture in Europe (XVII-XVIII century)
3) The birth of modern restoration: sholars, archeologists, artists
4) ""Stylistic unit"" notion and restoration as stylistic restitution
5) The english experience
6) After stylistic criteria: philological restoration and historical restoration
7) The italian experience
8) Monuments' practical and symbolic meanings
9) A long season: from philological restoration to scientific restoration
10) From postwar period to current debate Didactic methods
- The course of 50 hours takes place mainly through lectures of the two teachers, suitably scheduled to address the program of study in chronological order and appropriate theme. Chronological lessons are supplemented by specific additional monographic lectures about a particular moment in history or a specific architect, an analytical presentation of significant interventions achievements, conference activities about particular specialist and methodological aspects.
Learning assessment procedures
- The method of evaluation of knowledge and skills consists of an exam, in which the student deals with the themes of the didactic unit. The professor proceed in checking with some questions on the topics listed in the contents of the course and addressed during lessons. To pass the exam you need to acquire a minimum score of 18/30.
Reference texts
- - Maria Piera Sette, “Il restauro in architettura: quadro storico”, 2001
