Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide students with a methodological path to face, with full awareness, the restoration of buildings with historical-architectural or archaeological value. This will be done through single or group exercises carried out on multi-layered buildings dating back to different historical periods (from Roman times to twentieth-century buildings).
Particular attention will be given to preliminary investigations: from historical and documentary analysis, to researches aimed at understanding both the materiality of the building and the factors of decay. Topics related to the choices - inherent to the conservation of the material, the restoration, the reintegration of the image, the use of compatible materials and techniques - will also be addressed: all operations guided by a project that does not exclude contemporary addition, understood as part of an historical process not concluded but, on the contrary, in continuous evolution.

C. Ceschi, Teoria e Storia del restauro, Bulzoni, Roma 1970.
G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, Utet, Torino 1996.

The course will focus, on the basis of selected case studies, on historical and technical knowledge necessary to understand and document the characteristics of the architectural and environmental contexts of artistic and historical interest, as well as degradation phenomena that affect them compromising their conservation.
The aim is to teach that the survey has a fundamental role in the knowledge of any architectural monument. The survey helps to clarify the data emerging from research on historical, literary and epigraphic sources, indispensable for a comprehensive approach to the study of the monuments.

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