In view of its inevitable implications at an individual and collective level, in all historic periods hospital building has represented the most advanced level of elaboration of architectural models aimed at the optimal synthesis of form, function and technique.
Consequently, the typological and morphological reading of the Ospedale degli Infermi of Faenza, in the wake of a campaign of architectural surveys and archive research, represents an opportunity for verifying the relationship between technical culture and design and building practice through which it is possible to identify the typological and semantic values of the architecture.
Designed and constructed by the master builders Raffaele and Giovanbattista Campidori in the middle of the eighteenth century, the various phases in the transformation of the Hospital are analysed down to our own times, positing tools and methods of investigation designed to optimise operations for the rehabilitation and conservation of the most ancient part of the building.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0737-2187
Book Title
L'Ospedale degli Infermi di Faenza
Book Subtitle
Studi per una lettura tipo-morfologica dell'edilizia ospedaliera storica
Editors
Carlo Biagini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
268
Publication Year
2007
Copyright Information
© 2007 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-591-7
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-592-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-591-7
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-942-0
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919