Ricominciare dal frammento. Alcune note su Gibellina vecchia e Gibellina nuova/Start over from the fragment. Some notes on old Gibellina and new Gibellina

The theme of the value of the fragment, its perception in contemporary culture, in today’s scientific language and the related works of arrangement, reassembly by anastylosis, reintegration, within the limits of the recoverability of the architectural text, and reconstruction assumes substantial importance. What is meant by fragment? Consequently, what is the methodology of approaching a source like this? So, and under what conditions, can the unity be recomposed starting from the fragment or is it destined to remain alone forever, in its ‘anachronism’? These are some questions that we will try to answer by analyzing two significant cases made in old Gibellina and in new Gibellina following the earthquake that struck the Belìce Valley in 1968: the Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri and the Palazzo di Lorenzo by Francesco Venezia.