Time Matter(s) : the Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's, the Vatican.
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 pas...
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Farnham :
Taylor and Francis,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. Notes on the ontology of remaking mnemic buildings
- Day 1. Introduction to a micro-historical study of the renovation of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (1506-1626)
- Day 2. Architecture's twinned body: building and drawing
- Day 3. 'Hallowed configuration'. The mediating role of architectural representation in built conservation
- Day 4. Stratigraphic drawings and the drawings of members. Assembling the exquisite corpse
- Day 5. Restoring the corporate body. Heteroglossia versus unity of style
- Day 6. Framing the icon. Skin-deep conservation versus the imagination of built conservation
- Day 7. Time matter(s). The sempiternal nature of built conservation
- Conclusion. The role of ambiguity and the unfinished in defining built conservation.
