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War Rubble (and) Landscapes. Reuse Practices in Italy 1943-1947
Paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 78th International Conference, held in Atlanta, from April 30 to May 3 2025
Upcycling Architecture in Italy. Forging and Promoting a Renewed Building Culture aims to contextualize, analyze, re-elaborate, and disseminate the theory and practice of the Upcycling of building materials at the architectural scale. The research project revolves around the concept of Upcycling, and the related principle of Design for Disassembly (DfD), applied to the scale of architectural design and understood as the critical reuse of building materials, capable of avoiding a new entry into the production cycle.