Course program
The course creates expertise in the direct analysis of monuments and their study from the historical-cultural standpoint, with particular attention to the construction elements, in view of a future drafting of the restoration plan.
In particular, the lessons will concern, in addition to the basic terminology, the research methodology used on architectural structures (aiming for the structure’s preservation, with its historic and aesthetic values).
This research includes archival-documentary, iconographic, and bibliographic research (notions will be provided on the technique for cataloguing and filing of texts and the sources consulted), direct analysis conducted through observation, and surveying meant as an instrument for knowledge and basis for specifically targeted thematic interpretations.
Particular importance will be given, throughout the entire course, to the study of the construction and expression aspects of architectural works; with regard to this, the lessons will cover (also with reference to historic documentation) all the moments that have involved the process of the construction and transformation of historic buildings (building materials, scaffolding, building techniques for above-ground walls, horizontal structures, roofs, finishing details, and so on). It is a study process which, especially when there is little or no written documentation, will start from the interior of the building and its material structures, later focusing on the formative process for the entire building.
The program includes: 15 hours dedicated to the concept of architectural restoration, a brief excursus on the history and development of the theory over time and to illustrate the links between the knowledge of the monument and the restoration project; a block of about 50 hours for theoretical lectures, divided between study of construction techniques aimed at acquiring architectural reading parameters and notions of historical building site - these issues will not be dealt with in closed modules but carried out at the same time; 10 hours set aside for exercises on what was discussed in class.
Prerequisites
The course has no preparatory courses. However, it is considered important to possess basic knowledge of the history of architecture and of survey and representation tools and techniques.
Books
The texts indicated as learning support are divided into mandatory and recommended. They should be consulted and studied throughout the course, because they are an essential basis for carrying out the exercise on the monument.
Mandatory texts:
CARBONARA Giovanni, Restauro dei monumenti. Guida agli elaborati grafici, Napoli, Liguori, 1990;
CARBONARA Giovanni, Avvicinamento al restauro, Napoli, Liguori, 1997, pp. 49-324;
FIORANI Donatella, Restauro architettonico e strumento informatico. Guida agli elaborati grafici, Napoli, Liguori, 2004;
GIULIANI Fulvio Cairoli, L'edilizia nell'antichità. Nuova edizione con CD-ROM, Roma, Carocci, 2006.
Frequency
The frequency is optional. However, students are encouraged to attend both the 'ex cathedra' lessons and the exercises schedule.
Exam mode
The final exam will consist of an individual, oral test on the lesson’s topics and basic bibliography and a valuation, with comments and clarifications, on the subject and manner of the exercises carried out on monument. The two components of the test are aimed at verifying the acquisition of the necessary skills and the ability to apply them to a specific, practical, topic. It is possible to take the exam through a unique final interview or to split it into separate parts developed during the course and at the end of it.
Bibliography
The texts indicated as learning support are divided into mandatory and recommended. They should be consulted and studied throughout the course, because they are an essential basis for carrying out the exercise on the monument.
Recommended texts:
ASCIUTTI Michele, L’Area Flaminia a Roma. Introduzione alla lettura diacronica, Roma, Artemide, 2015;
BARELLI Lia, La diffusione e il significato dell'opus quadratum a Roma nei secoli VIII e IX, in Saggi in onore di Gaetano Miarelli Mariani (edited by M.P. Sette, M. Caperna, M. Docci, M.G. Turco), in «Quaderni dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Architettura», n.s., fascc. 44-50 (2004-2007), Roma, Bonsignori, 2007, pp. 67-74;
BIANCHI Giovanna, Trasmissione dei saperi tecnici e analisi dei procedimenti tecnici, in “Archeologia dell’Architettura”, I, 1996, n. 1, pp. 53-64;
BRUSCHI Arnaldo, Indicazioni metodologiche per lo studio storico dell'architettura, in *Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, Roma, Carucci, 1978, pp.13-29;
CARBONARA Giovanni (edited by), Trattato di restauro architettonico, Torino, UTET, 1996; vol. II, pp. 3-192; pp. 261-288; pp. 297-418; pp. 419-586;
CARBONARA Giovanni (edited by), Atlante del Restauro, Torino, UTET, 2004;
CASTAGNOLI Ferdinando, Appunti di tecnica edilizia del Corso di Topografia di Roma e dell'Italia antica, a.a. 1980-81;
DE ANGELIS D'OSSAT Guglielmo, Studio dei monumenti dal punto di vista storico, artistico e tecnico, in IDEM, Sul restauro dei monumenti architettonici. Concetti, operatività, didattica, Scuola di Specializzazione in Restauro dei monumenti, Strumenti 13, Roma, Bonsignori, 1995, pp. 59-62;
IDEM, Proporzioni e proporzionalità. Due lezioni di architettura, in «Palladio», n.s., XV, 2002, 29-30, pp. 55-186;
DOGLIONI Francesco, La descrizione stratigrafica della costruzione, in IDEM, Stratigrafia e restauro, Trieste, Lint, 1997, pp. 53-64;
DOGLIONI Francesco, Intonaci e autenticità per relazione, in IDEM, Stratigrafia e restauro, Trieste, Lint, 1997, pp. 241-254;
ESCH Arnold, Reimpiego, in Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale, vol. IX, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Treccani, 1998, pp. 876- 883;
ESPOSITO Daniela, Murature ‘a tufelli’ nel tardo medioevo: metrologia e procedimenti costruttivi, in Metrologia e tecniche costruttive. Atti della Giornata di Studio. Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara, 3 marzo 1998, in «Contributi», 1998, n. 5, pp. 45-52;
FIORANI Donatella, Ordine e casualità negli apparecchi murari bassolaziali del XII-XV secolo. Annotazioni su alcuni dati di rilevamento, in Metrologia cit., pp. 69-78;
MANNONI Tiziano – Marco MILANESE, Mensiocronologia, in *Archeologia e restauro dei monumenti (edited by R. Francovich e R. Parenti), Firenze, All'Insegna del Giglio, 1988, pp.383-402;
PAGLIARA Pier Nicola, Antico e Medioevo in alcune tecniche costruttive del XV e XVI secolo, in particolare a Roma, in «Annali di architettura. Rivista del Centro internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio di Vicenza», 1998-99, nn. 10-11, pp. 223-260;
PARENTI Roberto, Sulle possibilità di datazione e di classificazione delle murature, in *Archeologia e restauro dei monumenti (edited by di R. Francovich e R. Parenti), Firenze, All'Insegna del Giglio, 1988, pp.280-304;
QUARONI Ludovico, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977, pp. 173-194;
SALVATORI Marcello, Introduzione: interesse degli studi metrologici ai fini della storia dell'architettura, in Metrologia e Tecniche Costruttive. Atti della giornata di studio, Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara, 3 marzo 1998 (edited by S. D'Avino e M. Salvatori), in "Contributi", 1998, n. 5, pp. 5-8;
SALVATORI Marcello, Manuale di metrologia, Napoli, Liguori, 2006.
Lesson mode
The course will make use, for the theoretical parts on general and method-related matters, of traditional type lessons, but also flipped classroom, for an immediate comparison on the level of learning, beside on-site surveys and visits to monuments and construction sites, to develop the ability to read architectural characters and have a comparison on methods and materials, and, for the application aspects, of review seminars held by the teachers, with a group discussion, as work progresses, of the drawings produced during the exercises carried out on monuments or the significant parts of them with preservation problems.
The drawings will cover the following topics:
1 - territorial framing of the monument, with references to roads, orography, settlement characteristics, regulations;
2 - survey drawings (as a critical analysis of the 'architectural text'), strictly aimed at full comprehension, in particular historical-aesthetic, tectonic and diagnostic, of the building: metric survey carried out with direct method (plans, elevations, sections scale 1:100/1:50/1:20) possibly integrated with surveys with indirect method (total station, laser scanner, photogrammetry); architectural survey (plans, elevations, sections scale 1:100/1:50/1:20) with the material characteristics of the study building; analysis of masonry and surface finishes (scale 1:10);
3 - historical-critical research on bibliographic, cartographic and archival sources on the subject under study and on the context as much as useful to the understanding of this, with and the drafting of a chronology;
4- analysis of the masonry;
5- analysis of the architectural construction characteristics of the object of study;
6- metrological-proportional analysis: research on possible units of measurement and proportioning systems used for the realization of the factory and its possible transformations;
7 - comparison analysis on typological, stylistic, metrological, proportional and material aspects of the monument and its wall system;
8- critical summary of data collected from direct and indirect sources, and identification of the most important historical phases.