The academic year 2025-2026 will see the inauguration of the course in Architectural Restoration in English for all students of the ‘Laurea L.M. 4 C.U. Ingegneria Edile-Architettura’ in order to complete their academic training with a special ‘focus’ on the conservation of the built heritage. All the skills acquired during the previous years of study will be fundamental in order to implement proactive actions for the active preservation and enhancement of the cultural heritage.
As Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, affirms
[…] It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.
The course in Architectural Restoration aims to offer a transversal training capable of bringing together the different disciplines involved in a restoration project: history, design and composition, construction science and technique, materials chemistry, construction technology, physics and human sciences.
For this reason, the course recommends the correct acquisition and passing above all of the technical disciplines present in the curriculum with particular reference to the science and technique of construction, fundamental disciplines for the correct elaboration of the restoration project.
The course will draw on interdisciplinary expertise and experience, including that of foreign scholars, which will enable students to learn about and explore issues that are fundamental to the sustainability of cultural heritage.
Therefore, the course aims to bring future engineers and architects closer to the different cultural and methodological paradigms to which this discipline refers in individual countries around the world. In fact, historically, the Eurocentric vision has not allowed us to carefully observe what other cultures have wisely developed and implemented for the conservation and valorisation of their own heritage. Thus, starting from a comparative analysis of the history of restoration in an international context, above all through the presentation of operational methods and realised projects, students will be invited to actively confront different methodological perspectives, working from the beginning on a restoration project in the historical centre of Pavia.
The aims of the course are closely linked to the points of the UN 2030 Agenda and the report ‘Culture in the Localisation of the SDGs: An Analysis of the Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs)’.
During the course there will also be seminars in different languages: Italian, French and Spanish with the active participation of lecturers from foreign universities.
Main topic: The historical center of Lomello in collaboration with the Diocese of Vigevano.
- Docente: OLIMPIA NIGLIO
- Docente: CAMILLO RICCI