Verso una Carta Internazionale del Rural Heritage

Abstract

In recent years international scholars, architects and intellectuals have committed to analyse, restore and enhance historicized rural buildings and landscapes. By addressing the issue of rural architectural heritage conservation the same issues refer to historic landscape analysis, to climate change, to people’s wellbeing, to the history of work and workers. Therefore, for restoration and the proactive preservation of history and places, an international confrontation of ideas and evaluations is essential in order not to lose or cause the loss of those incredibly rich interconnections. The simultaneous implementation and critical update of the principles and actions related to architectural and landscape heritage imbedded in rural architecture conservation call for an on - going cultural and planning commitment in order to understand, preserve and pass on a vast, yet perishable tangible and intangible heritage. The history and livelihood of this heritage are frequently subjected to aggressions, just like the extraordinary teachings they can offer on present and future sustainability.

Keywords

• Rural Heritage
• Conservation
• Landscape restoration
• restoration charters
• restoration and sustainibility