Restaurare il moderno: una contraddizione in termini?

Restoration, even with all the differencies deriving from a long debate, is a term that immediately remind the idea of something ancient or simply old. But these words, with the related concepts, are not consolidated and fixed. They change long the time passing and characterize every cultural period and its relationship with the previous ages. The definitions of these terms outline a sort of “project of the past” that seems to be a product of the present time, of every “present time”, more than an historic data definetely aquired. Any interrogation about the restoration of “modern architectures” is, therefore, signed by numerous questions about our relationships with the products of the work of other men and other generations before us, also reconsidering our true or presuntive certainties about the modes of intervention on ancient buildings. The paper tries to point out some of the questions of the contemporary cultural, disciplinary and technical debate about the restoration of the “modern”, considering the always existing dialogical couple of terms: restoration/history, restoration/project and restoration/science and technique