CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN ITALY. THE NEW TRENDS AMONG THEORY, PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES AND INTERNATIONALISATION

The actual situation of the building market, in Italy as in Europe, with a great number of dismissed industries and, especially, with a significant number of dwellings not compliant with structural and energy regulations, is trigging the needs to have more, than in the past, architects able to understand and conceive a better project for the existing constructions. The aim of this paper is to analyse, with case of studies, if the pedagogical approach in architectural heritage conservation can be transfer to the management of the existing constructions. In fact, it is necessary to test if the theoretical and practical approaches are in line with the requests of a building context and with a construction labour market deeply transformed by the introduction and development of the ICT and the internationalisation of higher education institutions. These two last factors imply the sharing methodologies and approaches on the conservation of the architectural heritage and, more in general, of the existing civil constructions.