Conservar, no restaurar. Hugo, Ruskin, Boito, Dehio et al. Breve historia y sugerencias para la conservación en este milenio

[EN] With an overpowering prose style full of reason and feeling, Professor Dezzi Bardeschi explains his personal creed in defence of conservation rather than restoration. The history of both disciplines in Italy, the International Restoration Charters and their main protagonists are the central strand of a reasoning that refutes the unjustifiable whims and frivolities linked to restoration to defend respect for the material and historical integrity involved in the conservation of a building seen as a monument/document.[ES] Con una prosa arrolladora cargada de razón y sentimiento, el profesor Dezzi Bardeschi expone su credo personal que defiende la práctica de la conservación frente a la alternativa de la restauración. La historia italiana de ambas disciplinas, las Cartas Internacionales de Restauración y sus protagonistas principales sirven de hilo conductor para un razonamiento que rebate los caprichos y frivolidades injustificables que presupone ligados a la restauración, para defender el respeto a la integridad material e histórica que supone la conservación del edificio entendido como monumento/documento.Dezzi Bardeschi, M. (2005). Conservar, no restaurar. Hugo, Ruskin, Boito, Dehio et al. Breve historia y sugerencias para la conservación en este milenio. Loggia, Arquitectura & Restauración. (17):16-35. doi:10.4995/loggia.2005.3491SWORD16351

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This paper presents a critical reading of the Venice Charter, an Icomos key document, fruit of a conference held in 1964. The Charter is often quoted in Brazil but is not always properly understood. The conservation and restoration charters - especially those produced by international institutions - are documents that have an indicatory or, at the most, prescriptive character. They constitute the deontological foundation of many professionals involved in preservation, but they are not recipes for immediate use. In order to elaborate a well-founded reading of the document, its ideas must be understood in connection to the theoretical postulates of the time they were engendered and to the developments of the field. Thus this paper will examine these subjects, commenting and enlightening the Charter's articles and pointing out the origins of specific ideas. It also discusses how the Charter relates to previous documents and their theoretical foundations. This approach, based in a critical analysis, is necessary in order to reach a fuller interpretation of the Charter's indications so that they can be used in the present

A Multicriteria Approach for the Evaluation of the Sustainability of Re-Use of Historic Buildings in Venice

The paper presents a multiple criteria model for the evaluation of the sustainability of projects for the economic re-use of historical buildings in Venice. The model utilises the relevant parameters for the appraisal of sustainability, aggregated into three macro-indicators: intrinsic sustainability, context sustainability and economic-financial feasibility. The model has been calibrated by a panel of experts and tested on two reuse hypotheses of the Old Arsenal in Venice. The tests have proven the model to be a useful support in the early stages of evaluation of re-use projects, where economic improvements are to be combined with conservation, as it supports the identification of critical points and the selection of projects, thus providing not only a check-list of variables to be considered, but an appraisal of trade-offs between economic uses and requirements of conservation