January 23rd, 24th, 25th 2025
Lecture Hall A1
School of Engineering
Via Eudossiana 18, Rome
San Pietro in Vincoli
Organizing committee:
Alberto Bologna, Edoardo Currà, Cassia De Lian Cui, Marina Docci, Ilaria Giannetti, Mario Mariani, Alessandro Mattioli, Martina Russo, Laura SeveriInterest in the heritage of the Modern Movement in architecture is a need for identity and responds to a demand for memory centered on the more recent past. The industrial story is at the center of this recent past and the related industrial heritage is representable as “the evidence of activities which had and continue to have profound historical consequences” (Nizhny Tagil 2003).
Therefore, the conference intends to support a fundamental knowledge process in order to arrive at a shared awareness of the value of industrial objects that thus makes them “cultural heritage”.
It is an ongoing process that sees the introduction of integrative or, better yet, explicative value components, the areas of patrimonial significance of a diverse set of material and intangible memories.
The conference will be followed by a major outreach activity to the scientific community, in order to bring the entire sphere of industrial architecture to new attention, along with a due dissemination and awareness-raising activity.
In fact, only a part of the buildings of the modern, pertaining to the industrial heritage, has been the subject of a precise national census project by the Ministry of Culture. It is that of the first half of the 20th century. This is a remarkable achievement, but it is necessary to identify for all industrial architecture the forms of protection necessary to maintain and transmit the cultural values and design intent of the author.
The issue of protection and restoration of these buildings intersects with other current regulatory provisions; of which energy efficiency is the most complex to combine with an as-yet unestablished approach to restoration.