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I due volumi raccolgono contributi di autorevoli studiosi italiani e stranieri nei quali, partendo dalla pluralità di orizzonti di interesse di Giovanni Carbonara, vengono affrontati inediti percorsi critici e storiografici. I saggi si articolano in quattro sezioni: teoria, metodi e temi generali di storia e restauro dell'architettura, storia e rappresentazione dell'architettura e della città, restauro e la tutela dei monumenti, la formazione per il restauro: riflessi internazionali ed esperienze di metodo in cui si indagano i molteplici aspetti della disciplina. The present work is a collection of essays by authoritative Italian and foreign scholars that address the unpublished critical and historiographical path of the multiple interests of Giovanni Carbonara. The essays are divided into four sections: Theory, methods and general themes of History and Restoration of Architecture, collecting topics of theoretical reflection, but also method; History and representation of architecture and the city, with essays dealing with topics ranging from antiquity to the contemporary era; Restoration and the protection of monuments, a section in which develops together with themes of the history of restoration, more properly design aspects, alongside and beyond restoration, to extend the interest to the environmental context; training for restoration: international reflections and method experiences in which the multiple aspects of the discipline are investigated, with particular reference to teaching and operational practice.

Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars, Vitruvius emerges as an imperial expert par excellence when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. No building of Vitruvius'name survives from antiquity, but his treatise remains a formidable literary construction that partakes of Rome's vibrant textual culture. The book explores Vitruvius'portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing'Vitruvian man'at the dawn of Augustus'empire. In direct dialogue with his republican model, Cicero's ideal orator, the architect embodies a distinctly imperial civic ethos in which technically skilled partisans supersede old elites as guarantors of Augustan authority. Vitruvius promises to shape not only the emperor's legacy with architecture, but also the notion of a Roman citizen through his ideal architect.

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Piccoli gioielli architettonici nati dall'utopia Non solo Palmanova, Aquileia, Pienza, Sabbioneta: l'Italia pullula di città ideali dalla struttura geometrica regolare, frutto di visioni laiche o di esoteriche cosmogonie. L'itinerario va dalla quadristellata Terra del Sole, voluta da Cosimo I de'Medici nel 1546 in Romagna, ad Acaya, in provincia di Lecce; da San Leucio, frazione di Caserta, alle città-operaie Crespi d'Adda e Solvay a Rosignano; dalle città'di fondazione'fascista, come Latina e Sabaudia nel Lazio, Arborea e Fertilia in Sardegna, al recente'sogno'della Scarzuola in provincia di Terni.