Conoscere per valorizzare. Stefano Cambiano, ingegnere tra restauri e nuove costruzioni nella Pinerolo a cavallo tra i secoli XIX e XX

The article is a partial result of a broader research project that is still in progress and focuses on the work of engineer Stefano Cambiano (1852-1931), who was active in Pinerolo (TO) between the end of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th. Cambiano designed hydraulic and road works, apartment buildings, and villas for exceptionally wealthy clients and certainly left his mark on the technical and architectural culture of the city, also due to his long-standing activity as a topography professor at the local technical institute ‘Michele Buniva’. Until now, his work has never been the subject of specific analysis, a gap that has begun to be filled through an initial systematic investigation of his work, which has mainly used archival research. Given the premises, what we want to bring out in this short paper is not only the engineer’s legacy – material and immaterial – but also the possibility of an in-progress enhancement of the partial research that is open to further investigation in such a way as to generate conscious and participatory conservation processes that, we think and hope, could bring citizens closer to the constant care of assets, particularly those for public use.