U radu se analiziraju tekstovi talijanskog arhitekta, kritičara i teoretičara arhitekture i restauriranja Camilla Boita nastali u sedmom desetljeću 19. stoljeća. Tekstovi su objavljeni u dnevniku La Perseveranza i časopisima Il Politecnico i Nuova Antologia. Analizirajući Boitove rasprave o natječajima, aktualnom stanju arhitektonskog projektiranja i potrebi nastanka nacionalne arhitekture, autor ih stavlja u kulturni i politički kontekst nastanka ujedinjene Kraljevine Italije.The paper presents an analysis of texts written by Camillo Boito, an Italian architect, theoretician and critic of architecture and restoration, in the 1860s. The texts were published in the newspaper La Perseveranza and the journals Il Politecnico and Nuova Antologia. By analysing Boito’s tractates on competitions, current state of architectural design and the need for the creation of a national architecture the author places texts within a political context of the Italian unification
