The Architectural Restoration Encyclopedia Universale dell'Arte, vol. XI, 1963

Abstract

The architect Renato Bonelli (1911-2004) was one of the main people responsible for the formulation and dissemination of the critical restoration theory, developed in Italy in the second post-war period. Over more than six decades, Bonelli contributed decisively to the areas of the history of architecture – and, in particular, the historiographic method – and the theory of restoration, as a professor and as a researcher, in a professional trajectory strongly influenced by aesthetics idealistic. Specifically in the field of architectural and urban restoration, Bonelli's contributions are numerous, characterizing the intervention in heritage as a cultural action. Thus, the translation into Portuguese, for the first time, of his best-known text, the entry Il restauro architettonico, published in the Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte in 1963, can contribute to the dissemination of the critical restoration theory in architecture and urbanism and, more specifically, of your thinking.