ABSTRACT

Though often not considered as a concept in its own right, time can be regarded as a key factor for the preservation of the built heritage. Time can be taken into account as an implicit and discriminating factor, projecting itself onto the building and imbuing three aspects of its conservation: there is a relationship between the historical evolution of the concept of restoration and a change in the perception of time; the relationship between sense of time and the development of the building through time is likewise significant; thus a temporal approach to ancient buildings leads to a pluralistic attitude toward their physical decay. For example, assuming time to be a dimension of a building alters the concepts of both entirety and decay. An increasingly nuanced contemporary perception of time is supposed to enhance critical thinking about preservation, but this requires a more clearly articulated idea of intervention, and a many-sided approach that combines reason and emotions. Deliberately including a recognition of the passage of time within a preservation programme requires significant effort to reconcile technical aspects and perception, enhancing the idea of conservation interventions as never-ending interpretation, and suggesting further ways of appreciating built heritage. The discussion is centred around attitudes to monuments in Italy but the approach is relevant internationally.

摘要

尽管时间本身通常不被视为一个概念，但时间可以被视为保护建筑遗产的关键因素。时间可以被视为一种隐含的、有区别的因素，将其自身投射到建筑物上并渗透到其保护的三个方面：修复概念的历史演变与时间观念的变化之间存在关系；时间感与建筑物随时间的发展之间的关系同样重要；因此是一种时间方法对古建筑的看法导致了对它们的物理衰退的多元化态度。例如，假设时间是建筑物的一个维度，会改变整体和衰变的概念。当代对时间的日益细致入微的感知应该增强对保存的批判性思考，但这需要更清晰地表达干预的想法，以及结合理性和情感的多方面方法。有意在保护计划中包含对时间流逝的认识需要付出巨大努力来协调技术方面和感知，增强保护干预作为永无止境的解释的想法，并提出进一步欣赏建筑遗产的方法。讨论集中在对意大利古迹的态度上，但这种方法在国际上具有相关性。