The School of Specialisation in Architectural Heritage and Landscape og Genoa. Summary of an experience

The book collects the results of the activities carried out during 25 years by teachers and students of the “Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio” of the University of Genoa (former “Scuola di Specializzazione in Restauro dei Monumenti”). The School offers professional training to those who prefer, in their own area of interest, the protection and active conservation of architectural and landscape heritage and to whom it is increasingly required a highly qualified scientific and technical preparation. The universe of artifacts to which the restoration turns its attention is extraordinarily rich and constantly expanding and escapes any claim of total and autonomous domination by a specific discipline and, even more so, by individual technical operators. The post-graduate training course of the School, characterized by a disciplinary wealth and training approaches, thus responds to the extreme complexity of the intervention of conservation, restoration, reuse and enhancement of the architectural heritage of cultural interest, not exclusively monumental.