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DOCTORAL PROGRAM in PRESERVATION of ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE Phd Yearbook | 2012 Phd Yearbook 460 DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN PRESERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PhD Yearbook | 2012 PhD Yearbook 461 Interventions on the built environment and more generally Chair: on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in Prof. Carolina Di Biase 1. M. F. De Vergès, Projet de dix ponts differents en charpente, 1818. all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. Special and separate attention is paid, on one hand, to older and Coursework historical buildings and structures, on the other to contemporary The PhD is intended to offer a broad range of courses which combine architecture, in both cases in constant contact with developments in theory and practice to stimulate advances in multidisciplinary research. studies elsewhere in others countries. The PhD career, held in three years, involves the acquisition of a total of Regarding the method, the most significant contribution of the 180 credits. PhD program is the ability to acquire both the learning derived 30 credits are concentrated in the first year and are divided as follow: from specialized knowledge, both the fundamentals of knowledge 25 (minimum) offered by PhD courses organized by the PhD program that allow to dialogue with different disciplinary matters and often in Preservation of the architectural heritage, and 5 credits offered by complementary. the PhD School. The remaining credits are aimed to personal study and The sequence of courses and activities are designed to form a research for the preparation of the PhD thesis. researcher and an operator that can work with high-quality in In addition to compulsory courses, for each PhD candidate is organized preservation activities, maintenance and management of building a specific path-study that will include the attendance at other teaching heritage. activities. PhD candidates may attend courses offered by the School OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION for Specialists in Architectural Heritage and Landscapes (Scuola di Teaching aims Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio - SSBAP), both in Knowledge is an essential step towards protecting and preserving the order to add more specific knowledge to those acquired in the courses built environment, and particularly in the case of the “conservation of Master degree, and in relation to different topics of the thesis. of the architectural heritage”, it is essential to understand complex In support of research carried out for their thesis, students will benefit aspects of its creation, transformation, present conditions, and from several laboratories both in the University, and outside: among consider the richness of its meanings and evidences. them, the Analysis and Diagnostic Evaluation of Buildings Laboratory In fact a building or a structure cannot be explained by the technical (DiAP), the Materials tests Laboratoy (DIS), the Laboratories of ICVBC – instruments of architecture alone: its documentary dimension lies CNR Unità di Milano “Gino Bozza” and of the Institute of atmospheric in its material substance, in the meanings that built heritage has sciences and climate (CNR Isac Padova). Among the activities been assuming over time for different societies and that should be undertaken during the second and third year there are also included evaluated when news condition and significances of buildings and the attendance to workshops, seminars and national and international sites are to be defined. conference related to individual research, with particular attention to Familiarity with the built environment is necessarily aided by historical the conferences in which PhD candidates will present the results, even research and every other kind of useful contribution as well as, partial, of their research thesis. obviously, that by experimental science. As far as knowledge and The PhD courses are organized in a variable number of lectures (one intervention on the built heritage are concerned, the human sciences semester) and are complemented by study visits and seminar activities. and historical disciplines are indissolubly linked with the relevant The seminars are organized by the responsible professors – which applied sciences. For there can be no “truthful”, exhaustive diagnosis provide information and basic bibliography- and have a systematic of old buildings that fails to consider the dimension of time, and the presence of lecturers from other Italian or foreign Universities in order reconstruction of past usages and transformations. Conservation of to allow PhD candidates to get informed about the research in the built environment founds in the interdisciplinary knowledge as well as different aspects and contexts. The lectures by foreigner professors will on people able to solve the questions by means of the contribution of be held in English. In the case of lessons held in a language different different kind of subjects and studies. from English, the PhD course will organize a simultaneous translation into English language. 462 archaeological sites and landscape conservation, several bodies have financed scholarships. museology and museography. Graduates of the PhD program have often The PhD program fosters contacts with government found employment in public sector conservation institutions – starting from the Ministry for Cultural institution at progressively higher levels, as well as Heritage, in its central and regional offices – and in professional practice and in the business world, with organizations operating across the country in in specific specialized fields. the sector of preservation. Within this framework | 2012 PhD Yearbook AdvisorY Board 463 Di Biase Carolina Politecnico di Milano Bellini Amedeo Politecnico di Milano 2. View of the ruins of the temple of Ramses II at Antinoe (Egypt). Direttore regionale per i Beni Culturali Bon Valsassina Caterina e Paesaggistici della Lombardia disciplines, with bibliographical readings in ∙ Strengthening of historical building of structures relation to the cultural interpretations that have Boriani Maurizio Politecnico di Milano and materials deals with analytical and influenced the site transformation during the Carpeggiani Paolo Politecnico di Milano experimental methods for testing the efficiency time. Chesi Claudio Politecnico di Milano of structures, including those at particular risk. It includes study and calibration of non-destructive Research organization and topics Crippa Maria Antonietta Politecnico di Milano investigative techniques for structural diagnosis, One of the distinctive features of the PhD course Faccio Paolo Università IUAV, Venezia as well as theoretical and experimental study of is that it explores issues as yet seldom addressed Forni Marica Politecnico di Milano appropriate non-invasive techniques, amongst in the sector of conservation, as a means of them compliance with safety standards for developing new contributions to scientific output. Grimoldi Alberto Politecnico di Milano buildings in seismic areas. Particularly there are analysis of materials of Jurina Lorenzo Politecnico di Milano ∙ The Culture and experiences of heritage contemporary buildings and their decay, the Marani Pietro Politecnico di Milano preservation is approached as part of the research of intervention techniques respecting the OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION history of culture getting to contemporary cultural heritage; the topic could be extended, Mirabella Roberti Giulio Università degli Studi di Bergamo events; as history of the change of the ways of starting from monumental building, to the wider Musso Stefano Università degli Studi di Genova thinking about preservation and its frontiers and field of common ones; the heating and plumbing Pesenti Serena Politecnico di Milano change in the expression of different cultural systems of historic buildings, “building physics” and institutional aspects. Preservation is also (already studied in Germany and France) and Pretelli Marco Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna considered as history of criteria and types of the consequent documenting of innovative Saisi Antonella Politecnico di Milano design and interventions that vary in time, up to installations in old buildings with the parallel study Selvafolta Ornella Politecnico di Milano the introduction of new intervention techniques, of old installations in individual buildings and at materials and forms between XIXth and XXth urban level. Tedeschi Cristina Politecnico di Milano Century. Experimental and workshop activities about Treccani Gian Paolo Università degli Studi di Brescia famous buildings or less known are carried out ∙ Construction history explores the issues of Vassallo Eugenio Università IUAV, Venezia recognizing buildings as a historic source, in the Laboratories that collaborates with PhD interpreting how events unfolded at building Doctoral program. Innovative studies are being sites and how production was organized, and conducted in this sector, thanks to new research Doctoral PROGRAM Board showing how construction techniques of the tools: the particular subjects of interest are historic past evolved thanks to the technical know-how mortars, old concrete, new mortars for masonry Giovanna Alessandrini già Dirigente di ricerca CNR Centro “Gino Bozza” di Milano of architects and builders, on one hand, and restoring. The objective is to find out how they Francisco Barata Fernandes Facultade de Arquitectura - Universidade do Porto (Curso de Estudos the methods of archaeological stratigraphy, also
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