Abstract
The 8th ARCo’s National Conference was dedicated to the reflections on architectural heritage restoration, with a special focus on the current critical issues and a section dedicated to the restoration designs, done or in progress, in order to represent the state-of-the-art about conservation and restauration in Italy and abroad. The participants were professionals, free or belonging to the MiBACT, to the Local Administration or to other private and public offices, all of them active in the practice of restauration and functional reuse. They presented their designs and reflected on the themes at stake, looking at the heritage as a close union of both the material substance of building and its architectural form, as well as its cultural meaning. ARCo focused its activity on recovery and restauration, so playing a pioneering role in the study, re-evaluation and rehabilitation of the historical techniques in the restauration field in every constructive aspect, included the anti-seismic prevention techniques.
