Terremoti, emergenza e memoria
In: Quaderni dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Architettura: n.s. 2019, 2020
DOI: 10.48255/1066
Earthquakes, emergency and memory
The culture and the tradition of architectural conservation have always been related to the problem of
the seismic vulnerability of the Italian territory. However, talking about earthquakes is often perceived
as talking of a sort of misfortune that indiscriminately hits people and objects, ignoring (or better,
trying to ignore) that earthquakes are perfectly natural events. Being aware of their certain recurrence, it
would be necessary a long-term model of prevention following the seismic classification and taking into
consideration scientific, social, cultural, historical and political implications. This effort would have the
aim of developing a widespread awareness of earthquakes to live together with them. Therefore, the
present paper wants to submit in full the still-relevant-today speech Considerazioni sul rischio sismico,
presented during a round-table discussion chaired by Gaetano Miarelli Mariani and already published
in 1985. [n.d.r.]