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.
J. Jokilehto, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth Heinemann - ICCROM, Oxford 1999.