After the earthquake in L’Aquila. For a return to the foundamentals of history of architecture

The earthquake of five years ago in italy, in L’Aquila and the surrounding valley of Aterno of 6 April 2009, showed the failure of many routine maintenance and restoration operations of existing buildings of the last fifty years, in particular in local historical centers. in parallel, the existence of critical errors in the design and construction of new buildings in many cases has revealed the inadequacy of much of the historical and technical knowledge and, more generally, of the related university teaching. Because by the time they are not been oriented to the full understanding of the complexity of the architectures. Also because of all, the current legislation requires the complete historical-critical evaluation of existing buildings before any intervention can be performed on them, as well as in-depth knowledge of the related foundation soils in order to work on existing buildings and for new constructions. These two issues, along with the recovery of so much knowledge of the past in terms of good rules of construction, will have to be included once again in different programs of university education, in particular in history of Architecture.