Early Modern Age Fortifications. Knowledge for Management, Conservation and Valorisation

The book we are giving to the press today contains the contributions presented at the Seminar entitled “Le Fortificazioni di Età Moderna: Conoscenza per la Gestione, Conservazione e Valorizzazione” (Modern Age Fortifications: Knowledge for Management, Conservation, and Valorization), held in Rome on 11/11/2024. The seminar was organized as the mid-term conference in the scope of the PRIN2022 INFORTREAT project, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU. The overall goal of the project is to make accessible the constructive knowledge related to military architecture (as described by early modern treatises) through 3D digital information models that can be consulted and queried by scholars, professionals, and the community. The project is conducted by groups of scholars belonging to four Italian university sites: the lead research group, from the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Energia, dei Sistemi, del Territorio e delle Costruzioni at the Università di Pisa is led by the principal investigator Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua, that from the Department of Architecture and Design at the Politecnico di Torino by the associate investigator Roberta Spallone, quello del Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering at the Università di Padova by the associate investigator Andrea Giordano, that from the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture at Sapienza University in Rome by the associate investigator Michele Russo. The latter and his group organized the seminar, the outcomes of which we present. The study day was organized to combine syntheses of the work conducted, mostly interdisciplinary and interseated, up to the end of the first year of the two-year project. This was complemented by invited multidisciplinary talks by international scholars dedicated to studies and interventions on the fortified heritage.