1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786830703321

Autore

Goffi Federica

Titolo

Time matter(s) : invention and re-imagination in built conservation : the unfinished drawing and building of St. Peter's, the Vatican / / Federica Goffi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4724-0123-9

1-317-01020-5

1-317-01021-3

1-315-55096-2

1-4094-4302-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

726.509456/34

Soggetti

Architectural design - Italy - History

Architecture - Conservation and restoration - Italy - History

Vatican City Buildings, structures, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue. Notes on the ontology of remaking mnemic buildings -- Day 1. Introduction to a micro-historical study of the renovation of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (1506-1626) -- Day 2. Architecture's twinned body: building and drawing -- Day 3. 'Hallowed configuration'. The mediating role of architectural representation in built conservation -- Day 4. Stratigraphic drawings and the drawings of members. Assembling the exquisite corpse -- Day 5. Restoring the corporate body. Heteroglossia versus unity of style -- Day 6. Framing the icon. Skin-deep conservation versus the imagination of built conservation -- Day 7. Time matter(s). The sempiternal nature of built conservation -- Conclusion. The role of ambiguity and the unfinished in defining built conservation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book fills in a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice, looking into a notion of conservation as a form of invention and imagination, offering the reader a counter-viewpoint to a predominant western understanding that preservation should be a 'still



shot' from the past. Through a micro-historical study of a Renaissance concept of restoration, this book provides a theoretical framework to question the issue of conservation as a possible creative endeavour, when a mnemic building is concerned, entailing conservation of memory within changes. It focuses on Tiberio Alfarano's