The lessons, grouped into four cycles, will focus on the following subjects:

The fundamentals of architectural restoration
- Basic terminology
- Key elements of the history and theory of restoration
- Extension of the disciplinary field of restoration; from the ‘individual’ and ‘unique’ monument to the whole anthropised territory
- Concept of environment and protection of the landscape

Knowledge as the indispensable premise behind every preservative action
- Main knowledge-gathering methods and tools

From recognition of the ‘values’ to be safeguarded to the project: use of the acquired knowledge to define the guidelines of the intervention
- Dialectics between conservation and development
- Disciplinary and interdisciplinary links
- Landscape aspects and planning of the territory
- Historical reasons and contemporary requirements

Current legislation

Implementation: all acquired knowledge will be put into practice during a hands-on exercise on a topic proposed by the lecturer.

E Turri, La conoscenza del territorio. Metodologia per un’analisi storico-geografica, Venezia 20092.
P. Baldeschi, Paesaggio e territorio, Firenze 2019.
E. Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Bari-Roma, Biblioteca Storica Laterza, 2020.