The inheritance of critical restoration in the Italian culture of preservation of last twenty years
Based on historic size of the critical restoration theory, as well as of fervid debate around it, questioning on its
receipt in the current Italian preservation culture seems to be meaningful, both from theorical and operative
point of view. To this end, the contribution is aimed to analyse the theorical debate developed on main
specialized magazines, focusing on the last twenty years, that is from 1990s up to now. The 1990s need to
be investigated since the ‘historicization’ in 1990 of the critical restoration theory and the matured temporal
detachment in relation to several important theorical contributes, such as
Restauro architettonico
in E.U.A.
of R.
Bonelli (1963), the
Teoria
of C. Brandi and statements of
Carta di Venezia.
Furthermore, the 1990s represent a
moment of serious consideration in the technical and methodological field, in the light of a practice that seems
to move independently: not surprisingly, in this period important editorial initiatives have been produced, such
as
ἈΝΑΓΚΗ
and TeMa. Starting from the debate on specialized magazines, the subsistence of the principles of
critical restoration has to be examined in depth, both from a theorical and an operative point of view.
