Time Matters Inveention and (Re)Imagination in Conservation: the Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peters the Vatican |
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Author:
| Goffi, Federica |
ISBN: | 978-1-4094-4302-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $109.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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 1571 ichnography of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, into which was woven a complex body of religious, political, architectural and cultural elements.