I restauri del Novecento e l'archeologia dei restauri.

"Abstract: The archaeologist usually distinguishes, recognizes and separates. In this way he can understand the traces belonging to different culture within artefacts characterised by different historical layers. This goal begins in any case more difficult when "restoration" produce mimetic result, such as in numerous restoration works conducted on ancient buildings and such as in the completion, maintenance or restoration of contemporary architecture. Within the first case the intervention goals try to pass the distances existing between ourselves and the past. Within the second perspective the constructive techniques seem to be confused by the homologation of the productive processes and because they belong to a single architectural culture. That means that any attempt to extend the use of stratigraphic archaeology to the restoration of nineteenth century buildings needs deep consideration about some questions of technical and methodological nature, but also about the meaning of the results and about the way of working that can derive from them.”