Federica Goffi

Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation

The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's, the Vatican

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills in a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice, looking into a notion of conservation as a form of invention and imagination, offering the reader a counter-viewpoint to a predominant western understanding that preservation should be a 'still shot' from the past. Through a micro-historical study of a Renaissance concept of restoration, this book provides a theoretical framework to question the issue of conservation as a possible creative endeavour, when a mnemonic building is concerned, entailing conservation of memory within changes. It focuses on Tiberio Alfarano's 1571 ichnography of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, into which was woven a complex body of religious, political, architectural and cultural elements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781409443018
• ISBN-10: 1409443019
• Artikelnr.: 41246641

Autorenporträt

Dr Federica Goffi, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Prologue: notes on the ontology of remaking mnemic buildings
Introduction to a micro-historical study of the renovation of St Peter's basilica in the Vatican, (1506-1626)
Architecture's twinned body: building and drawing
'Hallowed configuration': the mediating role of architectural representation in built conservation
Stratigraphic drawings and the drawings of members: assembling the exquisite corpse
Restoring the corporate body: heteroglossia versus unity of style
Framing the icon. Skin-deep conservation versus the imagination of built conservation
Time matter(s). The sempiternal nature of built conservation
The role of ambiguity and the unfinished in defining built conservation
Bibliography
Index.