Il rudere archeologico nell'"età della tecnica": una breve indagine attraverso lo sguardo di Roberto Pane e Cesare Brandi.

Cesare Brandi and Roberto Pane had identified in two macro-phenomena of their own contemporaneity the major risks for the conservation of archaeological heritage and its context: on the one hand, the rationalistic reductionism of the sciences, guilty of forcing places of history to mere documentary attestations, subtracting them from further meanings - imaginal, symbolic, emotional - that belonged to them; on the other, the subjugation of heritage to economic-consumerist processes, which were reflected on it in the double damage produced by building speculation and the anti-cultural increase of tourism. If an attempt to stem the spread of these phenomena can be discerned in some articles of the Venice Charter, such as Art. 6, can it be said that they actually succeeded in mitigating the effects of building speculation and the commodification of heritage? The answer seems to be negative. However, it is precisely recovering the thinking of Pane and Brandi, who in different ways were linked to the drafting of the Charter, that can still point the way towards which we should turn to defend heritage from the aggressions of the present.