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| Author(s): |
Pedro Murilo Gonçalves de Freitas
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo |
| Defense date: | 2018-02-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Regina Andrade Tirello;
Mario Mendonça de Oliveira;
Rosina Trevisan Martins Ribeiro;
Chiara Lucia Maria Occelli;
Maria Augusta Justi Pisani
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| Advisor: | Regina Andrade Tirello |
| Abstract | |
This thesis aims to investigate the conceptual work developed experimentally by Piero Sanpaolesi, engineer and architect, professor and restorer who collaborated for the discussions and development of Architectural Restoration as a project activity in the second half of the 20th century. In Italian post-war period, Sanpaolesi sought to reaffirm the skills of architects responsible for interventions on architectural heritage and to qualify Restoration as a conservation science. The work uses documents from archives, texts and materials mostly unknown or just recently made available to trace the evolution of Sanpaolesi¿s positions towards architectural conservation during his professional career. His approach considers the intrinsic elaboration of critical investigation of buildings and works of art in which he acted on. In this thesis, we defend the importance of Sanpaolesi's practical thinking in the field of Architectural Restoration based on deductive reasoning of restoration operations on the worksite, meant to serve as an essential laboratory for the development of history of architecture. His views aimed to combine the different backgrounds and training of architects in a single method of critical study of the history of ancient buildings. He believed that historical research could only be possible if carried out in direct confrontation with the materiality of cultural heritage. It is also argued that, motivated by the ideal of the traditional figure of the architect restorer, Sanpaolesi sought to re-establish a continuum with past practices of restoration in order to adapt them to new conservative demands required in Italy after the war, such as the use of scientific knowledge in the examination and intervention of existing architecture and the recovery of practical (and conservative) know-how from tradition. The thesis aims to contribute to the deepening of Brazilian discussions in the field, also orienting itself to ponder its own possible reverberations in Brazil, in particular against the tendency that minimizes architectural restoration as a professional ascription of architects (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/02022-7 - Piero Sanpaolesy: history, teaching and project of architectural restoration at the florentine school |
| Grantee: | Pedro Murilo Gonçalves de Freitas |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |