PRESERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Phd
Coordinator: Prof. Alberto Grimoldi


Objectives of the Doctoral Program:
The intervention, maintenance and the administration of the existing built patrimony, that require a high degree of knowledge and of organization at many levels, from planning to maintenance, from historic/archeological research, to sophisticated techniques of survey and diagnosis, together with refined studies on the materials and structures of the historic centers.
This Doctorate has the aim of preparing an operator who can influence at a high level the conservation and maintenance practice and the administration of the existing patrimony; this with special attention to the most ancient one also with continuous contact with other European organization with the same aim.

Contents of the Doctoral Program:
The Doctoral course wants to offer a wide spectrum of subjects in which theory and practice melt together, in order to give stimulation to advanced research also multidisciplinary one as necessary for more and more productive results in the field of conservation and maintenance of historic buildings. Courses and experimental and laboratory activities concern the following subjects: history and theory of protection and restoration, constructive techniques of the historic patrimony, study and calibration of non destructive investigation for the structural diagnosis of historic buildings, analytical and experimental methods and research on the appropriate and non invasive techniques for repair and strengthening also including the prevention techniques for the safety of buildings in seismic areas, research on materials of historic buildings and on their decay, history of the manuals and of the architectonic literature, methodology of the architecture archeology, techniques for survey and storage of data, courses on the building physics and on the installations in historic buildings, performance analyses, principles and techniques of the restoration project, codes and rules of cultural properties, environment protection, history and conservation of historic gardens, museology and museography.







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