The course is aimed at students in the first year of the master's degree in restoration. We will work on the role of the contemporary architecture in the reconstruction of identities in the earthquake zones.

The educational aim concern the design of a poli-functional building in an historical context, respecting the typological, spatial and material traits. The course proposes to investigate, through the architectural project, the settlement principles in relation to the surrounding historical urban fabric and to the landscape in which it is located.
The project area is located in Borbona, in the province of Rieti. Within the spaces of the former Convento di Sant'Anna, it is necessary to think of: a polifunctional space that can also be used as a temporary school on “natural agriculture”; a little market of typical food; a restaurant and a small guesthouse. It also requires a reflection on the public space in front of the convent.

The course includes a first part of lections, analysis and site inspections. Starting in November, students will work on project with weekly reviews

F. Cellini, Manualetto, Palermo 1991
E. Neufert, Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire, Milano 2013

Review of thermal sciences. Main characteristics of passive systems. Elements of psychrometry. Thermal behavior of the structures. Thermal insulating materials. Determination of energy requirements for air conditioning of buildings. Types of air-conditioning systems, selection criteria for the various types. Integrated design of the building-plant system. Renewable energy production and use systems: outline. Elements of acoustics and lighting technology. Notes on energy saving. Reference regulations.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Yunus A. Çengel.

Building techniques and theories on Refurbishment, Conservation and Protection of heritage from the ancient times to Renaissance and Baroque, Viollet-le-Duc, Morris, Ruskin, Fiorelli, Boito.
The Conservation Charters.
The Refurbishment Manuals.
The colour’s and texture’s culture in the historical architecture.
The Cultural Heritage and Landscape’s Code.
The international mind about Conservation and Refurbishment.
The Conservation and Refurbishment of Modern and Contemporary Architecture.
The architecture as resource: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
The nZEBs and the Sustainability in building industry.
The Design Rules and Refurbishment Technologies.
Materials for Refurbishment: knowledge, correct use, durability.
Building Configuration and Seismic Vulnerability.
Spreadshets for seismic vulnerability assessment of brickwork and reinforced concrete buildings.
Mery method for static assessment of archs and vaults.
Under-foundations, micro-piles, injections, CAM.
Interventions on pushing structures: supportings, abutments, barbicans, chains, ropes, calottes, fibers, complex systems.
Interventions in presence of excessive burdens: plated structures, hoopings, strings.
To avoid twisting moments: to design deformable floors, which can restrain walls in their plane.
The recovering of spalled reinforced concrete.
The expeditious and analytical energetic diagnosis.
Energy Certification within the Environmental Certification. Rules.
The configuration and exposition role.
Passive and active solar systems for naturally heating, cooling and ventilating.
Methods for upgrading performances in winter or summer time and their incidence on the refurbishment design.
Isolation systems: exterior, in the cavity, interior. Materials and components, rules of art, pathologies.
Controlled Mechanical Ventilation: her incidence and her function in refurbishment design.
The defence from the rising damp: phisical, chemical, elettro-phisical methods; magics and reality.
Basement and ground floor refurbishment.
Historical and contemporary, flat and sloping coverings refurbishment and upgrade.
Waterproofings and their pathologies.
Recurrent mistakes.
Design of Silence: prevision and correction of systems and components acoustical behaviour.
Isolation and acoustical conditioning of the spaces.
Refurbishing of the fixings and of exterior / interior finishings.

MARCONI, PAOLO, Arte e cultura della manutenzione dei monumenti, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1984;
MARCONI, PAOLO, Il restauro e l’architetto. Teoria e pratica in due secoli di dibattito, Venezia, Marsilio, 1993;
MARCONI, PAOLO, Materia e significato – la questione del restauro architettonico, Roma-Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1999;
MARINO, LUIGI et alii, Il restauro archeologico. Materiali per un atlante delle patologie presenti nelle aree archeologiche e negli edifici ridotti allo stato di rudere. Il rischio nelle aree
archeologiche, Firenze, AltrAlinea Edizioni, “I Quaderni di Pristina Servare”, 2016;
GIEBELER, GEORG et alii, Refurbishment Manual. Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions, Münich, Edition DETAIL, 2009;
BRINKMANN VINZENZ, BURANELLI FRANCESCO et alii, I colori del bianco. Policromia nella scultura antica, Musei Vaticani, Collana di studi e documentazione, Roma, De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2004;
PETZET MUCK, HEILMEYER FLORIAN, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Architecture as Resource, German Pavillion, 13th International Architecture Exibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2012, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012;
LEMBO FILIBERTO, STO ITALIA, Prestazioni caratteristiche dei più ricorrenti materiali edili da costruzione e da isolamento, sheets out of sale by Sto Italia;
ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER, REITHERMAN ROBERT, Morfologia edilizia e progetto sismico, italian edition made by Corrado Latina, Bologna, Edizioni Luigi Parma, 1985;
LEMBO FILIBERTO, MARINO FRANCESCO P.R., Il comportamento nel tempo degli edifici – cause di degrado e soluzioni progettuali dei sistemi “tradizionali” ed “industrializzati” – Casi di studio, Roma, EPC Libri, 2002; LEMBO FILIBERTO (editor), Isolare dall’esterno, 2 voll., Faenza, Faenza Editrice SpA, 1990;
MARINO FRANCESCO P.R., GRIECO MARIA TERESA, La certificazione energetica degli edifici ed il D.lgs. 192 del 19/8/2005 – Algoritmi di calcolo ed esperienze internazionali, IV^ Ed., Roma, EPS Libri, 2006.
Many other textes will be supplyed directly from the Teacher during lectures and laboratories.

Through the experiences of significant cases, the course will address, in archeological and architectural sites, the different methods of 3d integrated survey (direct, photogrammetry, laser scanning). Will be introduced methodologies for critical survey and stratigraphic analysis, applied to the case study.
In the module of GIS systems for the restoration, such analyzes will be systematized in a geographic information system.

Bertocci S., Bini M., Manuale di rilievo architettonico e urbano, Città studi edizioni, Novara 2012
M. Docci D. Maestri, Manuale del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, n.e. Laterza Editore, Bari 2009

This course is an introduction to GIS. The aim is to provide basic knowledge on the use of software to manage Information Systems in the project of restoration of cultural heritage.
Below the main topics discussed:
• GIS, Information Systems and Restoration;
• Cartography, Georeferencing;
• Vector and Raster Graphics Elements;
• Gis for urban restoration, examples of Constantine, Castrovirreyna, Izalco, Rione Monti;
• Information systems for restoration and archeology, archiving and management.

Box, P. (1999). GIS and cultural resource management: A manual for heritage managers. Bangkok, Thailand: UNESCO.

Plane curves. Equation of a plane. Point-Plane distance. Plane sections. Parametric Curves in R². Arc length and curvature. Examples using Mathematica software: plot, symbolic and numerical commands. Modeling a curve profile of an image. Polar coordinates. Rigid transformations: translations, rotations and reflexions. Rotation and reflexion matrices. Curves defined by their curvature.
Space curves. Parametric Curves in R³. Curvature and torsion. Frenet frame: tangent, normal and binormal vectors. Rigid transformations in R³. Rotation and reflexion matrices. Curves on surfaces. Cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
Surfaces. Parametric surfaces in R³. Jacobian matrix. The gradient. Two variable function plot. Surface intersections. Domes and vaults. Tubes, conic and cylindric surfaces. 
Modeling a surface from an architectural example. Point cloud-Surface distance.

R. Caddeo, A. Gray Lezioni di geometria differenziale. Curve e Superfici. vol. 1 Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana (2001)
(oppure nuova versione in inglese dallo stesso testo Alfred Gray, E. Abbena, S. Salamon Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, Third Edition Chapman & Hall/CRC (2006))

M. Abate, F. Tovena, Curve e Superfici, Springer (2006)

Canciani M., Falcolini C., Saccone, M., Spadafora G.: From point clouds to architectural models: algorithms for shape reconstruction, 2013.

Falcolini C., Talamanca V. Modelli geometrici applicati a nuvole di punti. In: "Mathematica Italia UGM 2015 - Atti del Convegno".
ISBN: 978-88-96810-04-0, Napoli, 22 - 24 maggio 2015

In this course students gain familiarity with techniques and methods for understanding and documenting the historic-formative character of historic centres, including the various phases that have formed and transformed the urban fabric; construction types; their mutation over time; identification of “coherent” modification and distinction from incoherent or damaging changes that should be removed. Particular attention is devoted to recognising and understanding pre-modern construction techniques, architectural elements and finishes, with the intention of reusing these in contemporary architectural and urban restoration.

General texts
P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Skirà Editore, Milan 2005
F.R. Stabile, M. Zampilli, C. Cortesi (a cura di), Centri storici minori. Progetti per il recupero della bellezza, Gangemi Editore, Rome, 2009.

Method and technique
G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1. Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Marsilio editore, Venice 1979
A. Giuffrè (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici. Il caso Ortigia, Laterza Editore, Bari 1993
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, Edizioni DEI, Rome 1997.
F. Doglioni, Stratigrafia e restauro, Tra conoscenza e conservazione dell'architettura, ed. LINT, Trieste, 1997

The Course of Urban Planning will aim to inscribe the restoration of individual buildings in the context of the general improvement of the urban cultural heritage, considered as a whole but also in its relations with the surrounding landscape.

The lectures will cover the evolution of planning instruments conceived explicitly to manage historical city centers (Recovery Plans), the survey of some recent plans, the illustration of the planning rules concerning the recover of buildings, their subdivision, the change of their former use.

The Course of Urban Planning will also propose the study and redesign of some public spaces in the historic center chosen in the Workshop, with the purpose to improve their aesthetic and social functions.

Aristone, O, Palazzo, A.L. Città storiche, Il Sole 24 Ore, Roma

Filpa, A, Talia, M, Fondamenti di governo del territorio, Carocci, Roma 2009

Sereni, E, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano Biblioteca Universale Laterza, 1993 Bari

1. From the mixture to the distinction of planning public interest, environmental and cultural / landscape: evolution of the territory discipline. The coexistence of different instruments of general and sectoral protection of the territory.
2. The fundamental principle of Article 9 of the Constitution. The cultural heritage as a form of property functionalized and Articles 42 and 41 of the Constitution. The division of legislative and administrative powers authority for the protection and enhancement in accordance with Articles 117 and 118 of the Constitution.
3. The Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (Legislative Decree no. 42/2004 - 156 and 157/2006 - 62 and 63/2008): General lines.
4. Cultural assets. Protection: detection modes; cultural interest occurs; direct and indirect constraints; protection and conservation. The security institutions (authorization of conservation work; bans and driving restrictions; discipline of the finds; membership required of archaeological interest in property; expropriation).
5. The preservation of cultural heritage: prevention, maintenance and restoration; professionals of the sector. Sanctions.
6. The promotion of cultural heritage: content (instrumental services and services to the public); organizational and management models; sponsorships.
7. The landscape heritage and the landscape. The European Convention of 2000 landscape and the consensus of the protection concept.
8. The legal classification of the historical centers. Urban renewal between capably protection and enhancement.
9. The imposition of the landscape bond. The landscape interest statements; reconnaissance of the operation of law constraints; the plan constraints. The landscape plans. Relationships with urban planning. Profiles of functional criticality of the current regulatory constraints.
10. The management of the landscape bond. The landscape authorization: the d.P.C.M. December 12, 2005 on documentation; the development consent ordinary; the Presidential Decrees 139/2010 e 31/2017 on the simplified procedure for small scale projects. Profiles of allocation of critical skills. Sanctions.

- C.Barbati, M.Cammelli, L.Casini, G.Piperata e G.Sciullo, Diritto del patrimonio culturale, Il Mulino, 2017
- P.Urbani e S.Civitarese Matteucci, Diritto urbanistico. Organizzazione e rapporti, Giappichelli, 2017
- S.Amorosino, Introduzione al diritto del paesaggio, Laterza, 2010

Linear elastic beam models: local deformation measures and local equilibrium equations. Cases examined: axis having shape of a linear segment or an arch of circumference with orthogonal sections. Linear axis and sections with a generic orientation.
Displacement method for the solution of statically indeterminate problems.
Beam models for the analysis of structural elements relevant for the historic buildings: arches, flat-arches, masonry structures (with one or more leafs) having one prevailing dimension. Analysis of the effect of the shear deformation on their mechanical behaviour.

Beam systems of relevant interest in the historic constructions: analysis of wooden trusses and floors and the unfolding of the rôle of their components.
Analysis of some sample problems by means of SAP2000 and Mathematica softwares.
The Cauchy continuum: local deformation and stress measures.
Principal stresses and principal deformation: the Mohr circumference.
The strain gage rosettes.
Uniaxial stress and strain cases. Constitutive relationships for masonry.
Linear elastic relationships. Material symmetries: orthotropic, isotropic materials. Lamé constants, Young modulus and Poisson coefficient.
Masonry damage analysis: direction of the cracks triggered by combined shear and normal stress components. Stresses induced by sinking.

Teacher's notes.
Gurtin: An introduction to continuum mechanics
Benvenuto: An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics

The teacher's notes, that are the basic part of the learning material, can be found in the FTP space of the Dipartimento di Architettura, using DARKNAS101.

The module has the objective of integrating the fundamental issues of valuation, exploring specific aspects of estimation tools and methods.
The economic evaluation is part of the design process and its creative phase, providing support for progressive choices and playing an active role in the construction of the project. The evaluation therefore plays a role in identifying the preferable solution with respect to the project, the context, the subjects involved in the process, and foreshadowed feasibility requirements. The module, after having reviewed the fundamental methodological aspects of the estimation discipline, deepens the methods, techniques and tools for analytical cost estimation, with particular reference to the restoration project. Finally, the methods and techniques for evaluating projects are provided according to different approaches: financial, economic and multidimensional.
Specifically, the module is divided into:
A brief summary of appraisal basics: appraisals principles and methods. Direct and indirect estimation methods. Total Economic Value, definitions and techniques.
Deepening of the specific topics of the evaluation of restoration costs: approach to analytic cost estimation, specific price lists for restoration, investigation techniques and analysis of new prices for restoration works, cost estimation applications to complex restoration projects.
Methods and techniques of projects evaluation: financial and economic analysis, multidimensional methods, Multicriteria Analysis (among which Electre methods, Dominant Regime Methods, Analytic Hierarchy Process, etc.).

A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell'estimo urbano", Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, "Nuovo trattato di estimo'', Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
Miccoli S., "La valutazione nel progetto di restauro", in Carbonara G. (diretto da), "Trattato di Restauro architettonico", UTET, Torino, 1996.
Lecture notes and documentation provided in the form.

The teaching of the architectural restoration laboratory is part of the training activities of the restoration discipline that are taught in the Master's Degree in Architecture. The course is aimed at providing critical understanding of the main themes and problems of the restoration of ancient, medieval and modern architecture and at combining the theoretical dimension with the design experience on specially selected examples studies case. These examples will be taken into account in their historical development and they will be connected with other disciplines and fields of research (art, history, documentation and representation, anthropology and geography).
As part of this study path, the laboratory is aimed at achieving the following learning outcomes:
1) In-depth and experimented knowledge of the most up-to-date tools and methods for restoration and enhancement of the heritage and landscape
2) Understanding of formation and transformation processes of the historical architecture by means of the ability to retrieve, contextualize, analyse and critically interpret both direct (observations critical and measurement targeted to the monument knowledge) and indirect historical sources (bibliographic, iconographic and archival documents knowledge).
3) The ability to produce design syntheses about technical and constructive details of the considered architectures.

The Course takes place during the first semester of the second year of the Master's Degree in Architecture - Restoration.
The didactic activity consists of three thematic groups: introductory lessons that illustrate the theoretical and methodological themes related to the general concepts of Protection, Conservation, Restoration and Enhancement; lectures and seminars of critical and analytical study of general themes are following, with the presentation of models of design and executive behaviour, demonstrated by real examples. The third thematic core is the most extensive in terms of time: it occupies at least 70 percent of the course hours and consists of seminar activities aimed to the restoration project. Therefore, the workshop has an eminently applicative character and it is carried out through the drafting of the project on a study case suitably selected for its typological eloquence.
The project consists of a historical investigation, to be associated with the material and geometric reading of the artefacts and their state of preservation and it ends with the formulation of proposals suitable for intervention. The three thematic nucleuses contribute to the definition of the preliminary analyses useful for choosing the project and for defining the restoration technical initiatives. The training path develops starting from the general investigations on an urban scale and from the reading of the architectural and material characteristics of the architecture; so, it proceeds with the historical and typological knowledge of the study case (historical analysis, material documentation and architectural interpretation) and it ends with the technical drawings of the choices of executive project.

Giovanetti F. (edited by) Manual of Recovery of the Municipality of Rome, II extended edition. Rome: Dei; 1997
Marconi P. The restoration and the architect. Venice: Marsilio; 2001
Zevi L. (edited), Manual of Architectural Restoration. Rome: Mancosu; 2001.
Pugliano A. The Recognition, the Documentation, the Catalog of Architectural Heritage. Elements of a constituting Thesaurus useful for Knowledge, Protection, Conservation of Architecture, 2 vols. Rome: Prospective editions; 2009.

Technical Physics class is focused on lighting design concepts for highlight and conservation of historical buildings, monuments and archeological areas. Rules and project methods in indoor and outdoor environment will be improved, also considering needs for new activities. Lighting projects will be developed, respecting historical, architectural, constructive aspects of buildings. A particular attention will be dedicated to surrounding, energy saving and environment conservation. Class will be organized in 3 phases:
1. Lighting Design Foundamentals
2. Case history
3. Project development according with conceptual aspects derivated by Restauration teaching

AA.VV. Manuale di Progettazione Illuminotecnica – a cura di Marco Frascarolo. Mancosu Editore Architectural Book and Review. Roma 2010

MASONRY MECHANICS

Block structures
monolith
monolith – inclined plane – friction
masonry pier made of assembled stones
overturning and sliding
pier restrained on top: Round Temple in Rome
post and lintel systems
symmetric and asymmetric structures
fractured lintel
lintel on inclined abutments
flat-arch (Coulomb)

Arches
Leonardo
Collapse mechanisms of arches in 17th century: de La Hire, de Belidor, Mascheroni
medieval geometric rule
funicular polygon
three hinged arches: tradition in steel construction
theoretically strongest form of arches
parabolic arch
voussoir arch – thrust line - sideways thrust for arches of different shape
automatic analysis: ogive and barrel arches
limit analysis
automatic limit analysis of voussoir arches
Vaulted structures
Domes as membrane structures, dome with monolateral stress resistance (no-tension)
Geometry of vaults and domes
Simplified analysis of groined and domical vaults
Masonry
In plane and out-of-plane behavior of masonry walls
Testing of small scale masonry assemblages
Elastic no-tension model
Limit analysis of in plane and out-of-plane stone walls
testing of model walls
catalogue of historical masonry
The rule-of-art or rule-of-thumb in masonry

THE BUILDING
load bearing vertical walls
Corner connections
Horizontal structures and connections
Timber roof trusses

THE BUILDING IN URBAN FABRIC

SEISMIC VULNERABILITY
vulnerability, seismic hazard, seismic risk
historic earthquakes: Lisbon (1755), calabro-messinese earthquake (1783), Messina(1908)
L’Aquila (2009)
seismic catalogues
seismology and plate tectonics
macroseismic scales (MCS, EMS)
quantitative measures of earthquakes
vulnerability

CODES OF PRACTICE
Ortigia, Matera, Palermo, Western Ligury


STRUCTURAL CONSERVATION
Diagnosis of masonry fractures
Signs of foundation failure
Cracking and crushing in walls


BUILDING ART
Literature
Pini, Poleni, on the Duomo of Milan, Rondelet, Viollet Le Duc, Donghi, Vitruvio, Alberti, Milizia, Cavalieri San Bertolo
Reading from Pini

PRACTICE IN RESTORATION

CODES and GUIDE-LINES
Probabilistic treatment of uncertainty
Codified loads and seismic action
NTC
Guide-lines

TIMBER TRUSS ROOFS – WOODEN FLOORS

STRUCTURAL STEEL IN RESTAURATION
Elements and connections

STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS OF MONUMENTS
Examples

REFERENCES
S. Mastrodicasa, Dissesti statici delle strutture edilizie, Milano, 1974, Hoepli.
E. Benvenuto, La scienza delle costruzioni e il suo sviluppo storico, Firenze, 1981, Sansoni.
A. Giuffrè, La meccanica nell’architettura, Roma, 1986, NIS.
A. Giuffrè, Monumenti e terremoti, Roma, 1988, Multigrafica.
R. Di Stefano, Il consolidamento strutturale nel restauro architettonico, Napoli, 1990, ESI.
A. Giuffrè, Letture sulla Meccanica delle Murature Storiche, Roma, 1991, Kappa.
A cura di A. Giuffrè , Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici, Bari, 1993, Laterza.
S. Di Pasquale, L’arte del costruire, Venezia, 1996, Marsilio.
A cura di A. Giuffrè e Caterina Carocci, Codice di pratica per la sicurezza e la conservazione dei Sassi di Matera, 1997, La Bautta
R. Sparacio, La scienza e i tempi del costruire, UTET, 1999.
A. Giuffrè, Leggendo il libro delle antiche architetture, a cura di C. Carocci e C. Tocci, Roma, 2010, Gangemi Ed.
Atti dei convegni dell’Associazione per il recupero del costruito (ARCo)
G. Croci, Progettazione strutturale e consolidamento delle costruzioni,...

Testo delle lezioni nel sito FTP

From Modernism to the revival of Medieval architecture: history, studies and projects. Gustavo Giovannoni: urban restoration and decentralization of the residential neighbourhoods. It is possible to compare Giovannoni’s thoughts and interventions in the architectural field to interpret various aspects of his ideology on the ideal purpose and physical structure of the city. The debate on the “ambientismo” – fuelled by architects and honorary fellows, led by Giovannoni and the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura – recognise the historical architecture, as well as the picturesque feeling inherent the historical urban pattern, as a possible model both to thin out the urban pattern for a healthiness reason and to decentralize new residential districts. Therefore, the “ambientista” approach is clearly influenced by the urban principles of Camillo Sitte, Charles Buls and Joseph Stübben and by the idea of garden city of Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin. Hence, between the 1910s and the 1920s, the ambientismo became the core principle of the urban and architectural project, identifying and reinterpreting the artistic and environmental features typical of each country, while considering the instances of modern building. It is possible to find this cultural orientation in various projects in Rome, such as San Saba, Aniene’s garden city in Montesacro, Ostia Nuova, the garden neighbourhood of Garbatella; all these projects were planned following Giovannoni’s theories and taking care of the relationship between “Vecchie città ed edilizia nuova”.

- P. Marconi, F. Giovanetti, E. Pallottino [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", DEI, Roma 1989
- F. Giovanetti [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", II edizione ampliata, DEI, Roma 1997
- P. Marconi, "Il restauro e l’architetto", Marsilio, Venezia 1993
- P. Marconi, "Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico", Laterza, Bari 1999
- P. Marconi, "Il recupero della bellezza", Skira, Milano 2005
- F.R. Stabile, M. Zampilli, C. Cortesi [a cura], "Centri storici minori. Progetti per il recupero della bellezza", Gangemi editore, Roma 2009
- F.S. Stabile, "La Garbatella a Roma. Architettura e regionalismo", Editrice Librerie Dedalo, Roma 2012
- P. Marconi, "Restauro dei monumenti – Cultura, progetti e cantieri 1967-2010", Gangemi, Roma 2012
- M. Sabatino, "Orgoglio della modestia. Architettura moderna italiana e tradizione vernacolare", Franco Angeli Edizioni, Milano 2013
- G. De Pasquale, "Viaggio nel Mediterraneo. La costruzione di un paesaggio attraverso l’iconografia dello spazio architettonico", LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2016

The course aims to accompany students in the final critical reflection on the different educational experiences in the three and two academic years in the restoration field. To this end, culture of architectural heritage themes, that already have been addressed during the studies (conservation, restoration and reconstruction in archaeology (era corretto anche come lo aveva scritto lei: gli inglesi però lo scrivono così), monumental, urban and architectural contexts regionalist) are subject of analysis. Also, during the semester, the students are offered a possible confrontation with the theoretical research on architectural design in the sub-class of Architectural and urban design. Lectures and design exercises are carried out with the support of specialized external collaborations (officials of public institutions, businesses and restorers).

Topics of the lectures

1. The philology as a methodological model for the archaeological and architectural restoration
2. Repeat, recovery and restoration: a culture of respect for tradition
3. Culture of places and recovery of the beauty of historic centres
4. The regionalist architecture and architectural restoration as replication
5. From the restoration to architecture: towards a new traditionalism

- Paolo Marconi, Francesco Giovanetti, Elisabetta Pallottino [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", DEI, Roma 1989.
- Francesco Giovanetti [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", II edizione ampliata, DEI, Roma 1997.
- Paolo Marconi, "Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico", Laterza, Bari 1999.
- Elisabetta Pallottino [a cura], "Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità", “Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte”, n. 95, Roma 2008.
- D. Manacorda, R. Santangeli Valenzani, L. Franciosini, E. Pallottino, R. Volpe, S. Picciola, A. Carlini, P. Porretta [cura scientifica], "arch.it.arch - dialoghi di Archeologia e Architettura" - seminari 2005-2006, Quasar, Roma 2009.
- Francesca Romana Stabile, Michele Zampilli, Chiara Cortesi [a cura], "Centri storici minori. Progetti per il recupero della bellezza", Gangemi editore, Roma 2009.
- Francesca Romana Stabile, "La Garbatella a Roma. Architettura e regionalismo", Editrice Librerie Dedalo, Roma 2012.

The course entitled ‘Theories of Architectural Research’ intends to place itself within the teaching lines and research of the Architecture Department and its educational offer, and in direct connection with the cultural setting and the ideal inspirations of the Research Doctorate “Architecture: Heritage and Innovation”.
With the Course of ‘Theories of Architectural Research’ we intend to supply architecture students with a contribution in this direction, that is with the knowledge that Theory is a fundamental and autonomous part of the Architectural Discipline, through a set of specifically chosen Theories, individual reflections, books, manuals, constructed and paper projects. The Theory of Architecture is neither a “how to” guide nor a justification that follows the establishment of an architecture, but rather a stand-alone instance of architectural thought. The theory of architecture is therefore closely linked to the practice of architectural design and research.

-H.W. Kruft, Storia delle teorie architettoniche da Vitruvio al Settecento, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 1988
-G. Samonà (a cura di), AA.VV., Teoria della Progettazione Architettonica, Dedalo, Bari 1968
- M. Biraghi, G. Damiani, Le parole dell’architettura. Un’antologia di testi teorici e critici: 1945-2000, Einaudi, Torino 2009