A R C H I T E C T U R E · C U H K · F A L L L E C T U R E

Monday 24.10.2011

18:30 – 20:00

Exhibition zone A

5th floor

Wong Foo Yuan Building

CARLO ACHILLI

Carlo Achilli is a free lance architect who works in Italy, particularly in Umbria and Tuscany. For

this lecture he will present several of his projects, where he remarks as the reuse of historic

buildings means to give back to city life not only urban property but also the opportunity for

rediscovering tradition, identity and cultural belonging. Moreover, he underlines how restora-

tion of historical buildings gives several chance for business and economic development.

He will talk about the situation of some Italian buildings before of the intervention of resto-

ration where they were unused, very deteriorated and on the verge of collapsing in several

be particularly differentiated case by case according to the formal or structural element on

which one operates, respecting the typology of the building and his layering: medieval, renais-

sance or baroque.

The goal of each single restoration is to preserve its artistic and historical riches, and yet not

to neglect any contemporary comfort and needs.

ITALIAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION