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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina: | 726.509456/34 |
Soggetto topico: | Architectural design - Italy - History |
Architecture - Conservation and restoration - Italy - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Vatican City Buildings, structures, etc |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Time matter(s) |
ISBN: | 1-4724-0123-9 |
1-317-01020-5 | |
1-317-01021-3 | |
1-315-55096-2 | |
1-4094-4302-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910786830703321 |
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