Paesaggi di rovine. Paesaggi rovinati. Landscape of Ruins. Ruined Landscapes

The book has as its object the study of historic landscapes and their integration in metropolitan areas or regions. The theme is the subject of a recent UNESCO document that has defined the concept of "Historic Urban Landscape", a notion that focuses on the landscape in order to protect the vulnerable natural and historical heritage of our territories, integrating strategies of protection, planning and design interventions. In this context, the role of the academic community is considered crucial and are encouraged researches that adopt the UNESCO concept of "Historic Urban Landscape" to study, according to an integrated methodology, the metropolitan territories. The book contains texts dealing with the relationship between archaeological sites and urban contexts. The contributions reveal the many aporias and rigidities still present in Italy, which hinder an integrated look and provide a theoretical framework, which was useful to explore the four selected case studies (which are the subject of specific publications that are work in progress): the Appia Antica Park, the Park of the Campi Flegrei, the Greeks, and the Park of the Villa del Casale and the river Gela. Five different sections of the book - Preservation and Re-invention, Margins and Marginality, Territorializations, Re-defining places and Architecture for Archaeological landscapes – respond, according to different points of view, to the issue of how to return to the traces of the past a role in the imaginary of the contemporary city. The Atlas of archaeological landscapes provides, through a selection of significant projects, other possible responses to the issue. The book is the first outcome of a Research Programs of National Interest (Grant 2009) entitled "Archaeological Landscapes, regions and metropolitan cities. Strategies of the contemporary urban project for the preservation and transformation." The multidisciplinary research team, led by Alessandra Capuano and formed by architects and archaeologists of 4 universities and 5 departments, worked on sites in Rome, Naples, along the Ionian coast of Calabria and Piazza Armerina, strongly characterized historically and symbolically. These areas are mainly regional parks and protected natural areas that often suffer of being partially derelict and semi-abandoned, not well integrated in the urban environment of belonging, with security problems and difficulties to preserve and make accessible the myriad of archaeological fragments and cultural heritage. To ponder on these places was necessary to discuss the vision that we have today of these realities. Thus this first volume (of five) collects the theoretical phase of the investigation that was elaborated through 5 seminars, conducted by the research units (Principal Investigators: Barbanera, Capuano, Miano, Nigrelli, Sestito). Topics were jointly identified, and tried to respond to some different questions. The main thesis was that the archaeological project and urban project could draw support from each other, interacting in the heart of the transformational processes. Alessandra Capuano has coordinated the research groups of the five departments and has conducted the research on the case study of the Appia Antica Park. In addition to having edited the whole publication of which has responsibility for the overall scientific direction (while the responsibility of each section was in charge of each research unit), she wrote the introductory essay (Introduction pp.10-21), she also edited the scientific selection of the essays regarding the section "Preservation and Re-invention", she wrote the text “Archaeology and New Imaginary” (pp. 37-49) and directed the construction of the Atlas. The book was launched at the National Museum of Rome in Palazzo Altemps by architect Franco Purini and by archaeologist Andreina Ricci and reviews are in program. The research discussed in this book is part of a series of studies on which Alessandra Capuano and the LaGraTe (the laboratory of the department which she directs) have been working for years to address issues that relate to the architecture and the city in its multiple manifestations (the relationship between heritage and new city, contemporary landscapes of the peri-urban, infrastructures and in-between spaces, rural landscapes) https://web.uniroma1.it/lagrate/

Il libro ha come oggetto lo studio dei paesaggi storici e la loro integrazione in aree o regioni metropolitane. Il tema di riflessione è oggetto di un recente documento dell’UNESCO che ha definito il concetto di “Paesaggio storico urbano”, uno strumento che pone al centro il paesaggio al fine di proteggere il vulnerabile patrimonio storico e naturale dei nostri territori, integrando strategie di tutela, di pianificazione e interventi contemporanei. In questo quadro, il ruolo delle comunità accademiche è considerato centrale e vengono incoraggiate ricerche che adottino il concetto di “Paesaggio Storico Urbano” per studiare, secondo una metodologia integrata i territori metropolitani. Il volume raccoglie testi che trattano del rapporto tra aree archeologiche e contesti urbani. I contributi rilevano le numerose aporie e rigidità ancora presenti in Italia, che ostacolano uno sguardo trasversale e integrato e forniscono un quadro teorico di riferimento, che è stato utile per esplorare quattro casi-studio (che sono oggetto di specifiche pubblicazioni work in progress) su i quali operare proposte di ri-significazioni dei luoghi: il Parco dell’Appia Antica, il Parco dei Campi Flegrei, la Magna Grecia e il Parco della villa del Casale e del fiume Gela. Cinque diverse sezioni del volume - Tutela e Re-invenzione, Margini e Marginalità, Territorializzazioni, Ri-significare i luoghi e Architettura per i paesaggi archeologici rispondono secondo diversi punti di vista al tema di come restituire alle tracce del passato un ruolo nell’immaginario culturale urbano della città contemporanea. L’Atlante dei paesaggi archeologici fornisce, attraverso una selezione di progetti significativi, ulteriori possibili risposte al tema.